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title: "Ducked" means pushed under water; if someone does it to you at a po… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ducked" means pushed under water; if someone does it to you at a pool, tell a lifeguard or grown-up. Who acts: someone, lifeguard. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 16

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"Ducked" means pushed under water; if someone does it to you at a pool, tell a lifeguard or grown-up.

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**Who acts:** someone, lifeguard · **What happens:** duck, mean, push, do, tell · **To what, where:** water, you, pool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection 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 (someone, lifeguard), 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:16
# text = "Ducked" means pushed under water; if someone does it to you at a pool, tell a lifeguard or grown-up.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Ducked	duck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **duck** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | participle |  |  |  | water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent under water=Trajectory |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | water | you | a pool |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a lifeguard or grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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