--- title: When two kids blamed each other for a push — «by the gate!», «by the… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics description: When two kids blamed each other for a push — «by the gate!», «by the bins!» — the teacher asked a third kid: «They both pushed, by the bench.» When stories clash, ask what people are sure of, and find someone else who saw. Who acts: two kids, teacher, kids, stories. A sentence of the lesson «Stories --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) / 35 # Stories that change, sentence 35 When two kids blamed each other for a push — «by the gate!», «by the bins!» — the teacher asked a third kid: «They both pushed, by the bench.» When stories clash, ask what people are sure of, and find someone else who saw. **Who acts:** two kids, teacher, kids, stories, people · **What happens:** blame, ask, push, clash, be, find · **To what, where:** other, third kid, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (two kids, teacher, kids, stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:35 # text = When two kids blamed each other for a push — «by the gate!», «by the bins!» — the teacher asked a third kid: «They both pushed, by the bench.» When stories clash, ask what people are sure of, and find someone else who saw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 — - PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 24 — - PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 27 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 both both ADV RB PronType=Tot 35 advmod _ _ 35 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 42 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 clash clash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 46 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 47 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 50 obj _ _ 48 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 49 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 ccomp _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 50 obl _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:parataxis 55 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 54 obj _ _ 56 else else ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 58 nsubj _ _ 58 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 acl:relcl _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | past | two kids | each other | | | | for a push | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the teacher | | a third kid | | | by the bins | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **push** *in a quote* | past | kids *= kid* | | | | | by the bench; both *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by bench=Trajectory | | 4 | **clash** | present | stories | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | people | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | infinitive | | someone | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | | 8 | **see** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:35`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Stories that change, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/34/) - next →: [Stories that change, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)