--- title: Police at a door can mean a burglary, an accident, bad news or someo… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics description: Police at a door can mean a burglary, an accident, bad news or someone needing help; it never proves that a person did wrong. Who acts: Police, help, person. 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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 (Police, help, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:20 # text = Police at a door can mean a burglary, an accident, bad news or someone needing help; it never proves that a person did wrong. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.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 Police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 burglary burglary NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 conj _ _ 17 needing need VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 acl _ _ 18 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | can | Police at a door | a burglary and a accident and bad news | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burglary=Topic | | 2 | **need** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 3 | **not** **prove** | present | help | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | a person | | | | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:20`. **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. 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