--- title: When a child keeps picking on you, telling a teacher or parent is no… — The kid who has it in for you · tree and pragmatics description: When a child keeps picking on you, telling a teacher or parent is not telling tales; it is how it gets stopped. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/23/) [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/) / [The kid who has it in for you](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/) / 23 # The kid who has it in for you, sentence 23 When a child keeps picking on you, telling a teacher or parent is not telling tales; it is how it gets stopped. **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** keep, pick, tell, not tell, be · **To what, where:** teacher, tales, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (child), 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:23 # text = When a child keeps picking on you, telling a teacher or parent is not telling tales; it is how it gets stopped. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 5 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 nsubj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 17 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | a child | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pick** | gerund | a child *not said here* | | | | | on you | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on you=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a teacher or parent | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present · passive | | child | | | | stop *property* | tree rules | 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:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:23`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The kid who has it in for you, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/22/) - next →: [The kid who has it in for you, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/)