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title: Brothers and sisters fight, but hitting hard is not okay; big feelin… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Brothers and sisters fight, but hitting hard is not okay; big feelings like "I wish he didn't exist" pass, and parents need to set rules. Who acts: Brothers, hitting, lifeguard, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's prima
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# Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 18

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Brothers and sisters fight, but hitting hard is not okay; big feelings like "I wish he didn't exist" pass, and parents need to set rules.

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**Who acts:** Brothers, hitting, lifeguard, pet, big feelings, parents · **What happens:** fight, hit, not be, wish, not exist, pass · **To what, where:** big feelings, rules · **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 (Brothers, hitting, lifeguard, pet), 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:18
# text = Brothers and sisters fight, but hitting hard is not okay; big feelings like "I wish he didn't exist" pass, and parents need to set rules.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
24	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | Brothers and sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | hitting |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | a lifeguard or grown *= lifeguard* | big feelings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **exist** *in a quote* | past · do-support | pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** | present | big feelings |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **need** | present | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | parents *not said here* | rules |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rule=Result |

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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:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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/).

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