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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 (Secrets, Toad, thrill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:13 # text = Secrets attracted Toad «because he never could keep one», and he enjoyed the thrill of telling one after promising not to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 attracted attract VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod 11 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 thrill thrill NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 promising promise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attract** | past | Secrets | Toad | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Patient | | 2 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | could | Toad | one | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Theme »=Attribute | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | Toad | the thrill | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thrill=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the thrill *not said here* | one | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | the thrill *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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