--- title: A child can tell a teacher just what they need, like «no computer at… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics description: A child can tell a teacher just what they need, like «no computer at home», without telling all the family's business; schools can lend laptops. Who acts: child, children, business, schools. 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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 (child, children, business, schools), 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:40 # text = A child can tell a teacher just what they need, like «no computer at home», without telling all the family's business; schools can lend laptops. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 31 laptops laptop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | a child | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **need** | present | children *= child* | | | | | like no computer at home | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the family's business | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lend** | can | schools | laptops | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laptop=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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:40`. **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): R5-strong ×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. 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