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title: Precious wants to cry and run; instead she fires back, «So? — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Precious wants to cry and run; instead she fires back, «So? Who acts: Precious. A sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 13

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Precious wants to cry and run; instead she fires back, «So?

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**Who acts:** Precious · **What happens:** want, cry, run, fire back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (Precious), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:13
# text = Precious wants to cry and run; instead she fires back, «So?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.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	Precious	Precious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fires	fire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
14	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=disagree, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Precious |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Precious *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive | Precious *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fire back** | present | Precious |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:13`.

**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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