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title: Later that week, Dad says quietly that Mum has been low for weeks an… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics
description: Later that week, Dad says quietly that Mum has been low for weeks and the doctor says it is depression. Who acts: Dad, Mum, doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 4

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Later that week, Dad says quietly that Mum has been low for weeks and the doctor says it is depression.

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**Who acts:** Dad, Mum, doctor · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** depression · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (Dad, Mum, doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:4
# text = Later that week, Dad says quietly that Mum has been low for weeks and the doctor says it is depression.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): no change
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	depression	depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  | late, quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | that Mum |  |  |  | week | low *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | doctor | depression |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:4`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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