--- title: Being picked on day after day makes the dread start the night before… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: Being picked on day after day makes the dread start the night before: Ethan, whose bag gets pushed off the bench every day by a group of Year 6 boys who use a word about who someone might love as an insult, lies in bed thinking: "Why me? Who acts: dread, group, Year 6 boys, someone. 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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 (dread, group, Year 6 boys, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:0 # text = Being picked on day after day makes the dread start the night before: Ethan, whose bag gets pushed off the bench every day by a group of Year 6 boys who use a word about who someone might love as an insult, lies in bed thinking: "Why me? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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 ×9, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 15 Ethan Ethan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:xcomp 21 off off ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 31 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 about about SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 39 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 40 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:obl 49 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:xcomp 50 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 conj _ _ 53 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 54 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | gerund · passive | | | | | day | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» | | 2 | **make** | present | | the dread | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | infinitive | the dread *not said here* | | | | night | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **push off** | present · passive | a group Year 6 boys | the bench | | | day | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bench=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present | Year 6 boys | a word | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 6 | **love** | might | someone | a word | | | | as a insult | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus | | 7 | **lie** | present | Ethan | | | bed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Ethan *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «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:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:0`. **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 ×9, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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