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title: He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness. — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness. Who acts: Connor. A sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 1

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He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness.

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**Who acts:** Connor · **What happens:** spend · **To what, where:** holiday, rainy Skegness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai 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 (Connor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:1
# text = He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Skegness	Skegness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Connor | Connor's holiday |  | rainy Skegness |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Asset |

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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:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:1`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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