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title: Hand-me-downs are normal and sensible; pointing them out in public i… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Hand-me-downs are normal and sensible; pointing them out in public is rude. Who acts: Hand downs, pointing. 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 35

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Hand-me-downs are normal and sensible; pointing them out in public is rude.

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**Who acts:** Hand downs, pointing · **What happens:** be, point out · **To what, where:** downs

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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 (Hand downs, pointing), 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:35
# text = Hand-me-downs are normal and sensible; pointing them out in public is rude.
# 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	Hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	downs	down	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hand downs |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Hand downs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **point out** | gerund |  | downs *= down* |  |  |  | in public | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in public=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | pointing |  |  |  |  | rude *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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**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:35`.

**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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