--- title: Scene: on a Saturday in Toronto, Gran heads off to her shift at the… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: Scene: on a Saturday in Toronto, Gran heads off to her shift at the charity shop, your cousin texts asking you to sponsor her 5k run for the hospice, and outside the station a man in a sleeping bag asks for spare change. Who acts: Gran, cousin, man. 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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 (Gran, cousin, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:6 # text = Scene: on a Saturday in Toronto, Gran heads off to her shift at the charity shop, your cousin texts asking you to sponsor her 5k run for the hospice, and outside the station a man in a sleeping bag asks for spare change. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:dep 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 heads head VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 texts text VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 sponsor sponsor VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 compound _ _ 29 k thousand NUM CD Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hospice hospice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 36 outside outside ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 spare spare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **head off** | present | Gran | | | | saturday | to Gran's shift at the charity shop | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **text** | present | your cousin | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | your cousin *not said here* | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **sponsor** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | your cousin *not said here* | Gran's k run | | | | for the hospice | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Beneficiary | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a man in a sleeping bag | | | | | outside the station; for spare change | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **shift** | | Gran | | | the charity shop | | | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent at=place | | 7 | **run** | | Gran | | | | | for the hospice | nom run «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | 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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:6`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)