--- title: Every morning his tummy went tight; for a month he faked being ill o… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: Every morning his tummy went tight; for a month he faked being ill on Mondays; in the end he told Mum, she spoke to the school, the boys were stopped, and even then he kept his head down in that corridor for a while, because fear takes longer to leave than the bullies do. 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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 (tummy, she, fear), 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:3 # text = Every morning his tummy went tight; for a month he faked being ill on Mondays; in the end he told Mum, she spoke to the school, the boys were stopped, and even then he kept his head down in that corridor for a while, because fear takes longer to leave than the bullies do. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 faked fake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 14 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Mondays Monday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 down down ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 corridor corridor NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nmod 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 because because SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 52 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 54 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 53 advmod _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 xcomp _ _ 57 than than SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 bullies bully NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nsubj _ _ 60 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 advcl _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Ethan's tummy | | | | morning | tight *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fake** | past | tummy | | | | month | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | gerund | tummy *not said here* | | | | monday | ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | tummy | | Mum | | in the end | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | she | | | | | to the school | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | past · passive | | the boys | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **keep down** | past | tummy | tummy's head | | that corridor | then; while | down *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 8 | **take** | present | fear | | | | | long *property* | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 9 | **leave** | to-infinitive | fear *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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