--- title: Being called "teacher's pet", "keeno" or "swot" for trying is common… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: Being called "teacher's pet", "keeno" or "swot" for trying is common teasing; trying your best is good, and other keen kids are out there. Who acts: trying, other keen kids. 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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 (trying, other keen kids), 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:17 # text = Being called "teacher's pet", "keeno" or "swot" for trying is common teasing; trying your best is good, and other keen kids are out there. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 keeno keeno NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 swot swot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 teasing tease NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 obj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | | teacher's pet | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 2 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | trying | common teasing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **try** | gerund | | your best | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | trying | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | other keen kids | | | | | out, there *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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. 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