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title: Too heavy for a lad your size to carry about.» And when her rival El… — The kid who has it in for you · tree and pragmatics
description: Too heavy for a lad your size to carry about.» And when her rival Ellie wins the writing prize, Maddie wants to say «you only won 'cos Miss likes you» — but she tells Ellie, «Well done, it was good.» Ellie blinks: «Yours was good too.» Who acts: rival, Maddie, you, Miss. A sentence of the lesson «Th
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# The kid who has it in for you, sentence 21

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Too heavy for a lad your size to carry about.» And when her rival Ellie wins the writing prize, Maddie wants to say «you only won 'cos Miss likes you» — but she tells Ellie, «Well done, it was good.» Ellie blinks: «Yours was good too.»

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**Who acts:** rival, Maddie, you, Miss, Ellie, Yours · **What happens:** carry about, win, want, say, like, tell · **To what, where:** writing prize, you, Ellie · **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 (rival, Maddie, you, Miss), 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:21
# text = Too heavy for a lad your size to carry about.» And when her rival Ellie wins the writing prize, Maddie wants to say «you only won 'cos Miss likes you» — but she tells Ellie, «Well done, it was good.» Ellie blinks: «Yours was good too.»
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
23	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	cos	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
37	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
41	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
44	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
45	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
51	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
52	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	blinks	blink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
54	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
55	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	_
56	Yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	ccomp	_	_
59	too	too	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
61	»	»	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 | **carry about** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** *in a quote* | present | Kieran's rival | the writing prize |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Maddie |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Maddie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **win** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **like** | present | Miss | you |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Miss |  | Ellie |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ellie=Recipient |
| 8 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | past | rival |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **blink** *in a quote* | present | Ellie |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **is** | past | Yours |  |  |  |  | good *property* | 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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