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title: In «Spare» Harry wrote that William once pushed him to the floor in… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics
description: In «Spare» Harry wrote that William once pushed him to the floor in an argument; William has not told his side in public. Who acts: Harry, William. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life course of Mova's primar
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# The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 21

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In «Spare» Harry wrote that William once pushed him to the floor in an argument; William has not told his side in public.

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**Who acts:** Harry, William · **What happens:** write, push, not tell · **To what, where:** Spare, Harry, argument, side, public · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» 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 (Harry, William), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:21
# text = In «Spare» Harry wrote that William once pushed him to the floor in an argument; William has not told his side in public.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Spare	spare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Harry |  |  | Spare |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **push** | past | William | Harry |  | a argument |  | to the floor; once *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to floor=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | William | Harry's side |  | public |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Recipient |

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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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:21`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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