--- title: When Maisie says "I'm not talking to you until you admit goldfish ar… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: When Maisie says "I'm not talking to you until you admit goldfish are stupid", the fight is about winning now, not about fish. Who acts: Maisie, you, goldfish, fight. 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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 (Maisie, you, goldfish, fight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:1 # text = When Maisie says "I'm not talking to you until you admit goldfish are stupid", the fight is about winning now, not about fish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 2 Maisie Maisie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 admit admit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 about about SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 winning win VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maisie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **talk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Maisie | | you | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | | 3 | **admit** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | goldfish | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | the fight | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **win** | gerund | the fight *not said here* | | | | now | about fish | vn succeed-74-2 «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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:1`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friends who cling to a legend, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/0/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)