--- title: Brush your hair, you look like a scarecrow.» Then at the school gate… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics description: Brush your hair, you look like a scarecrow.» Then at the school gate a Year 6 boy pushes Cerys, and Megan-Lee is there in two seconds: «Touch my sister again and see what happens, butt» («butt» is South Wales for «mate»). Who acts: you, Year 6 boy, Megan Lee, butt. 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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 (you, Year 6 boy, Megan Lee, butt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:3 # text = Brush your hair, you look like a scarecrow.» Then at the school gate a Year 6 boy pushes Cerys, and Megan-Lee is there in two seconds: «Touch my sister again and see what happens, butt» («butt» is South Wales for «mate»). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Brush brush VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 12 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 15 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 22 Cerys Cerys PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 Megan Megan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 Lee Lee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 42 nsubj _ _ 42 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 butt butt NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 vocative _ _ 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 47 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 butt butt NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 « « PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ _ 55 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 56 » » PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 57 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 58 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hair | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | you | | | | | like a scarecrow | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **push** *in a quote* | present | a Year 6 boy | the school gate | | | then | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cerys=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Megan Lee | | | | second | there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **touch** | infinitive | | my sister | | | again | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **happen** | present | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | butt | South Wales | | | | for mate | 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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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