--- title: Teenagers can be grumpy and kind within the same hour; asking at a g… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics description: Teenagers can be grumpy and kind within the same hour; asking at a good moment helps. Who acts: Teenagers, asking. 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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 (Teenagers, asking), 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:40 # text = Teenagers can be grumpy and kind within the same hour; asking at a good moment helps. # 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): no change 1 Teenagers teenager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 within within ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | Teenagers | | | | | grumpy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Teenagers *not said here* | | | | hour | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | moment | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | asking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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: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): 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. 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