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title: Nicknames for newcomers are often teasing rather than hate, but if o… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: Nicknames for newcomers are often teasing rather than hate, but if one is nasty, tell a teacher. Who acts: Nicknames, one. A sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The new kid and the first day, sentence 35

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Nicknames for newcomers are often teasing rather than hate, but if one is nasty, tell a teacher.

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**Who acts:** Nicknames, one · **What happens:** tease, be, tell · **To what, where:** teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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 (Nicknames, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:35
# text = Nicknames for newcomers are often teasing rather than hate, but if one is nasty, tell a teacher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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	Nicknames	nickname	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	cc	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **tease** | present · progressive | Nicknames for newcomers |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one |  |  |  |  | nasty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Nicknames for newcomers *not said here* |  | a teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

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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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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): 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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