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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 (jokes, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:22 # text = On the way out the warders «chaff» him (tease him) with jokes; the book's jokes about men and a «widow woman» come from old ideas about men and women. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 warders warder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 chaff chaff NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 tease tease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | infinitive | | book | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | the book's jokes about men and a widow woman | | | old ideas about men and women | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from idea=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **joke** | | the book | | | | | about men and a widow woman | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl | 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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/21/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/)