--- title: Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl helped; refusing to… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl helped; refusing to talk did not, because silence kept her alone with the worst story in her head. Who acts: Video calls, refusing, silence. A sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/) / 5 # Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 5 Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl helped; refusing to talk did not, because silence kept her alone with the worst story in her head. **Who acts:** Video calls, refusing, silence · **What happens:** help, refuse, not talk, not do, keep · **To what, where:** girl This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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 (Video calls, refusing, silence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:5 # text = Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl helped; refusing to talk did not, because silence kept her alone with the worst story in her head. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Nan Nan PROPN NNP _ 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 6 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 12 refusing refuse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 alone alone ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | Video calls with Nan and that one friendly girl | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **refuse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **talk** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **do** | past | refusing | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | past | silence | girl | | | | with the worst story in girl's head; alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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