--- title: In Grimsby a boy calls Pete a loser, and his sister Dilly, a whole h… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics description: In Grimsby a boy calls Pete a loser, and his sister Dilly, a whole head shorter, marches up: «Say that again, I dare yer.» The boy backs off laughing. Who acts: boy, sister, Loyalty. 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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 (boy, sister, Loyalty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:23 # text = In Grimsby a boy calls Pete a loser, and his sister Dilly, a whole head shorter, marches up: «Say that again, I dare yer.» The boy backs off laughing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Grimsby Grimsby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Pete Pete PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 loser loser NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 13 Dilly Dilly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 20 marches march VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 24 obj _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 30 yer you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 34 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 backs back VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | a boy | | Pete | Grimsby | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pete=Recipient | | 2 | **march up** | present | boy's sister | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | that | | | again | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 4 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | Loyalty | | yer | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **back off** | present | the boy | | | | | | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:23`. **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, R6-punct-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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