--- title: Picture a Saturday in Leeds: Mum, Auntie Sue and you are in Nan's ki… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a Saturday in Leeds: Mum, Auntie Sue and you are in Nan's kitchen with cardboard boxes, wrapping her teacups in newspaper, laughing at her old hats and then suddenly crying over a birthday card she kept. Who acts: you, Nan. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult lif --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/2/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) / 2 # What people leave behind, sentence 2 Picture a Saturday in Leeds: Mum, Auntie Sue and you are in Nan's kitchen with cardboard boxes, wrapping her teacups in newspaper, laughing at her old hats and then suddenly crying over a birthday card she kept. **Who acts:** you, Nan · **What happens:** picture, be, wrap, laugh, cry, keep · **To what, where:** Leeds, kitchen, teacups, newspaper, old hats, birthday card This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (you, Nan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:2 # text = Picture a Saturday in Leeds: Mum, Auntie Sue and you are in Nan's kitchen with cardboard boxes, wrapping her teacups in newspaper, laughing at her old hats and then suddenly crying over a birthday card she kept. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 026-what-people-leave-behind.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 ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Auntie Auntie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 10 Sue Sue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 cardboard cardboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 wrapping wrap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 teacups teacup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:xcomp 29 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hats hat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 35 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 conj _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | Leeds and Mum and Auntie | saturday | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | Nan's kitchen | | with cardboard boxes | tree rules | | 3 | **wrap** | gerund | you *not said here* | Nan's teacups | | newspaper | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent teacup=Theme in newspaper=Destination | | 4 | **laugh** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | Nan's old hats | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | a birthday card | then | suddenly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over card=Location | | 6 | **keep** | past | Nan | a birthday card *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:2`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What people leave behind, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/1/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)