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title: Some big-kid tricks cross that line. — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Some big-kid tricks cross that line. Who acts: kid tricks. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 4

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Some big-kid tricks cross that line.

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**Who acts:** kid tricks · **What happens:** cross · **To what, where:** line

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kid tricks), 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:4
# text = Some big-kid tricks cross that line.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present | some kid tricks | that line |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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