--- title: Picture a week in Birmingham: a speeding ticket arrives with a photo… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a week in Birmingham: a speeding ticket arrives with a photo of Dad's car, Mum gets a letter saying she must do jury service, and the neighbours are burgled while they are on holiday. Who acts: you, speeding ticket, Mum, letter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, speeding ticket, Mum, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:2 # text = Picture a week in Birmingham: a speeding ticket arrives with a photo of Dad's car, Mum gets a letter saying she must do jury service, and the neighbours are burgled while they are on holiday. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.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): 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 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Birmingham Birmingham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 speeding speeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 ticket ticket NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 burgled burgle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 advcl _ _ 40 . . 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* | | | Birmingham | week | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **arrive** | present | a speeding ticket | | | | | with a photo of Dad's car | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | Mum | a letter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a letter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | must | Mum | jury service | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | | 6 | **burgle** | present · passive | | the neighbours | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 7 | **is** | present | neighbours *= neighbour* | | | holiday | | | 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](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:030-police-courts-and-prison.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): 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: [Police, courts and prison, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/1/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)