--- title: A boy in Leeds was teased about his ears and said nothing to anyone;… — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds was teased about his ears and said nothing to anyone; for months he hid in the library at lunch until a teacher noticed and helped. Who acts: boy, teacher. 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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, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:088-liking-how-you-look.lesson:13 # text = A boy in Leeds was teased about his ears and said nothing to anyone; for months he hid in the library at lunch until a teacher noticed and helped. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 088-liking-how-you-look.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 teased tease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | past · passive | | a boy in Leeds | | | | about boy's ears | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | nothing | anyone | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to anyone=Recipient | | 3 | **hide** | past | boy | | | the library | month | at lunch | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location | | 4 | **notice** | past | a teacher | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **help** | past | a teacher *not said here* | | | | | | 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:088-liking-how-you-look.lesson:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Your body and how you look, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/12/) - next →: [Your body and how you look, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/)