What everyone learned about fights, sentence 7

And Lily's ponytail was left alone by everyone, because the boys had worked out that tugging it made her think less of them, not more.

Who acts: everyone, boys, tugging, Lily · What happens: leave, work out, tug, make, think · To what, where: ponytail, Lily, less

This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» of the everyday 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 (everyone, boys, tugging, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ponytail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Lily	case
4	ponytail	ponytail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 left	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 worked	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worked	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worked	aux
15	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 left	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 worked	compound:prt
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
18	tugging	tug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 made	csubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tugging	obj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worked	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	xcomp
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 think	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 less	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 more	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 more	advmod
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 made	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive	everyone	Lily's ponytail	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	work out	past · perfect	the boys			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tug	gerund		ponytail		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	make	past	tugging	Lily		tree rules
5	think speech: other	infinitive	Lily not said here	less		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot less=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, 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:everyday:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:7.

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 ×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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