--- title: Telling a child «be a big boy» is meant to help, but it can make chi… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a child «be a big boy» is meant to help, but it can make children feel they mustn't show feelings; boys can cry too. Who acts: Telling, stress, children, boys. 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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 (Telling, stress, children, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:11 # text = Telling a child «be a big boy» is meant to help, but it can make children feel they mustn't show feelings; boys can cry too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 032-needles-and-brave-faces.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj:pass _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 iobj _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 30 too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a child | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a big boy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present · passive | Telling | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: clause=Topic | | 4 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Telling *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | can | stress | children | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **feel** | infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **not** **show** | must | children *= child* | feelings | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | can | boys | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Needles and brave faces, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/10/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/)