--- title: In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics description: In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after a BBC interview about his friendship with a man convicted of serious crimes. Who acts: Prince Andrew. 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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 (Prince Andrew), 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:22 # text = In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after a BBC interview about his friendship with a man convicted of serious crimes. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 4 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Andrew Andrew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 duties duty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 interview interview NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 convicted convict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 crimes crime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **step back** | past | Prince Andrew | | | public duties | after a BBC interview about Andrew's friendship with a man; november | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from duty=Trajectory | | 2 | **convict** | participle | | a man *not said here* | | | | of serious crimes | 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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:22`. **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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