--- title: Some hurts are about losing face, like Rory losing an arm-wrestle to… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: Some hurts are about losing face, like Rory losing an arm-wrestle to his little cousin at a barbecue while the whole family laughed; others cut much deeper, like a boy telling Mo every single day that he should "go back" to a country he has never lived in, when Mo was born right here. 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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 (hurts, Rory, whole family, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:0 # text = Some hurts are about losing face, like Rory losing an arm-wrestle to his little cousin at a barbecue while the whole family laughed; others cut much deeper, like a boy telling Mo every single day that he should "go back" to a country he has never lived in, when Mo was born right here. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 hurts hurt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:aux 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 Rory Rory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 wrestle wrestle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 barbecue barbecue NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 Mo Mo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 39 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 46 back back ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 52 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 54 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 50 acl:relcl _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 54 obl _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 60 advmod _ _ 58 Mo Mo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nsubj:pass _ _ 59 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux:pass _ _ 60 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 advcl _ _ 61 right right ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 60 advmod _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some hurts | | | | | lose *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | Rory | a arm wrestle | | a barbecue | | to Rory's little cousin | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrestle=Eventuality | | 3 | **laugh** | past | the whole family | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cut** | past | others | | | | | like a boy; deep *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a boy *not said here* | | Mo | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent mo=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go back** *in a quote* | should | family | | | | | to a country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | | 7 | **not** **live in** | present · perfect | family | a country *not said here* | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme country=Location | | 8 | **bear** | past · passive | | Mo | | here | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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