--- title: And when big brother Mo said «I'll never tell on you, and you never… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: And when big brother Mo said «I'll never tell on you, and you never tell on me», then smashed a window, Leo quietly told Mum. Who acts: Mo, you, Leo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mo, you, Leo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:30 # text = And when big brother Mo said «I'll never tell on you, and you never tell on me», then smashed a window, Leo quietly told Mum. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Mo Mo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 smashed smash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 28 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 31 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mo big brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Mo big brother *= mo* | | | | | on you | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | on Mo big brother *= mo* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **smash** | past | Mo big brother *not said here* | a window | | | then | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Leo | | Mum | | | quietly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:30`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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