The kid who has it in for you, sentence 21

Too heavy for a lad your size to carry about.» And when her rival Ellie wins the writing prize, Maddie wants to say «you only won 'cos Miss likes you» — but she tells Ellie, «Well done, it was good.» Ellie blinks: «Yours was good too.»

Who acts: rival, Maddie, you, Miss, Ellie, Yours · What happens: carry about, win, want, say, like, tell · To what, where: writing prize, you, Ellie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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 (rival, Maddie, you, Miss), 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	Too	too	ADV	_	2 heavy	advmod
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 lad	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heavy	obl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 size	nmod:poss
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lad	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 carry	mark
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 size	acl
10	about	about	ADP	_	9 carry	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 wins	cc
14	when	when	ADV	_	18 wins	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rival	nmod:poss
16	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wins	nsubj
17	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rival	appos
18	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heavy	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prize	det
20	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prize	compound
21	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wins	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wants	punct
23	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 wants	nsubj
24	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heavy	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wants	xcomp
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 won	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 won	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 won	advmod
30	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 say	ccomp
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 likes	punct
32	cos	because	SCONJ	_	34 likes	mark
33	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 likes	nsubj
34	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 won	advcl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 likes	obj
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 won	punct
37	—	—	PUNCT	_	40 tells	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 tells	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tells	nsubj
40	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heavy	conj
41	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 tells	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 done	punct
43	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 done	punct
44	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 done	advmod
45	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heavy	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 good	punct
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 good	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 good	cop
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heavy	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	53 blinks	punct
52	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 blinks	nsubj
53	blinks	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heavy	parataxis
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 blinks	punct
55	«	«	PUNCT	_	58 good	punct
56	Yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 good	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 good	cop
58	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 blinks	ccomp
59	too	too	ADV	_	58 good	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct
61	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	carry about	to-infinitive					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	win in a quote	present	Kieran's rival	the writing prize			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
3	want in a quote	present	Maddie				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Maddie not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	win	past	you				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	like	present	Miss	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Miss		Ellie		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ellie=Recipient
8	do	participle				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	rival			good property	tree rules
10	blink in a quote	present	Ellie				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is	past	Yours			good property	tree rules

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:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:21.

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.

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