--- title: Boasting makes others feel small and pushes friends away. — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics description: Boasting makes others feel small and pushes friends away. Who acts: others. A sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Boredom, excitement and pride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/) / 14 # Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 14 Boasting makes others feel small and pushes friends away. **Who acts:** others · **What happens:** boast, make, feel, push away · **To what, where:** others, friends This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:14 # text = Boasting makes others feel small and pushes friends away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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 1 Boasting boast VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 8 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | | others | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | others *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **push away** | present | | friends | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:14`. **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. **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: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/13/) - next →: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/)