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title: Arjun keeps staring at Lily and whispering, and Lily is sure he's pl… — The kid who has it in for you · tree and pragmatics
description: Arjun keeps staring at Lily and whispering, and Lily is sure he's plotting, until his mate says, «He fancies you, he's just a bit of a muppet about it.» Not every starer is an enemy. Who acts: Arjun, Lily, mate, starer. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» of the everyday course 
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# The kid who has it in for you, sentence 10

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Arjun keeps staring at Lily and whispering, and Lily is sure he's plotting, until his mate says, «He fancies you, he's just a bit of a muppet about it.» Not every starer is an enemy.

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**Who acts:** Arjun, Lily, mate, starer · **What happens:** keep, stare, whisper, be, plot, say · **To what, where:** you, bit, enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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 (Arjun, Lily, mate, starer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:10
# text = Arjun keeps staring at Lily and whispering, and Lily is sure he's plotting, until his mate says, «He fancies you, he's just a bit of a muppet about it.» Not every starer is an enemy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fancies	fancy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	muppet	muppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
39	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	starer	starer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **keep** | present | Arjun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | Arjun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Lily | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lily=Theme |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | Arjun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Lily |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **plot** | present · progressive | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lily's mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fancy** *in a quote* | present | mate | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mate | a bit |  |  |  | of a muppet about muppet | tree rules |
| 9 | **is a** | present | every starer | a enemy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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.

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