--- title: Big kids in Glasgow sent wee Lewis to ask the shopkeeper for «a tin… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: Big kids in Glasgow sent wee Lewis to ask the shopkeeper for «a tin of tartan paint»; there is no such thing, the shopkeeper played along, and Lewis laughed too when he got it — next year he sent a younger kid for «a long stand». Who acts: Big kids, such thing, shopkeeper, Lewis. 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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 (Big kids, such thing, shopkeeper, Lewis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:11 # text = Big kids in Glasgow sent wee Lewis to ask the shopkeeper for «a tin of tartan paint»; there is no such thing, the shopkeeper played along, and Lewis laughed too when he got it — next year he sent a younger kid for «a long stand». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Lewis Lewis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shopkeeper shopkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 tartan tartan NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 18 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shopkeeper shopkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 along along ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 Lewis Lewis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 35 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 — - PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 41 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 47 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 « « PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 stand stand NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:nmod 53 » » PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Big kids in Glasgow | wee Lewis | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lewis=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Big kids in Glasgow *not said here* | the shopkeeper | | | | for a tin of tartan paint | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shopkeeper=Recipient | | 3 | **be** | present | no such thing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **play along** | past | the shopkeeper | | | | | along *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **laugh** | past | Lewis | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** | past | Lewis | shopkeeper | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 7 | **send** | past | Lewis | a younger kid | | | year | for a long stand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | 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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/10/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)