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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 (Mole, one, last year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:8 # text = The Mole asks one of them to recite from last year's play, but the poor mouse is struck dumb with stage-fright. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 recite recite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 21 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Mole | one of mice | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **recite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one of mice *not said here* | | | last year's play | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **strike** | present · passive | | the poor mouse | | | | with stage fright; dumb *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fright=Instrument | | 4 | **play** | | last year | | | | | | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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:books:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:8`. **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 ×1, 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. 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