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title: Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence on younger ones:… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence on younger ones: a deal that looks generous, said fast, by someone bigger than you, with no time to check. Who acts: Older kids, deal. A sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The older kid's «trade», sentence 3

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Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence on younger ones: a deal that looks generous, said fast, by someone bigger than you, with no time to check.

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**Who acts:** Older kids, deal · **What happens:** use, look, say, check · **To what, where:** size, deal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, deal), 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:3
# text = Older kids sometimes use their size and confidence on younger ones: a deal that looks generous, said fast, by someone bigger than you, with no time to check.
# 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): no change
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	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	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obl:agent	_	_
24	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | trade's size and confidence |  |  |  | on younger ones; sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | a deal |  |  |  |  | generous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a deal *not said here* |  |  | time | fast *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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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