--- title: When a big boy snatches her little brother's hat, Lily tells him to… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: When a big boy snatches her little brother's hat, Lily tells him to give it back, and he does — but she still tells the teacher on duty, in case it happens again. Who acts: big boy, Lily, boy, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big boy, Lily, boy, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:14 # text = When a big boy snatches her little brother's hat, Lily tells him to give it back, and he does — but she still tells the teacher on duty, in case it happens again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 snatches snatch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 back back ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 — - PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 34 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 fixed _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 37 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **snatch** | present | a big boy | rivalry's little brother's hat | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Lily | | boy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **give back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | hat | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present | boy | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Lily | | the teacher | | still | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 6 | **happen** | present | it | | | | again | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rival teams and the older bully, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/13/) - next →: [Rival teams and the older bully, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)