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title: Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence to get unfair tra… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence to get unfair trades from younger ones. Who acts: Older kids. A sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The older kid's «trade», sentence 29

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Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence to get unfair trades from younger ones.

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**Who acts:** Older kids · **What happens:** use, get · **To what, where:** size, unfair trades

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (Older kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:29
# text = Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence to get unfair trades from younger ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 445-the-older-kids-trade.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 ×1
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trades	trade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **use** | present | Older kids | prices's size and confidence |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Older kids *not said here* | unfair trades |  |  |  | from younger ones | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent trade=Theme from one=Source |

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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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:29`.

**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 ×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.

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

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