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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 (father, good boy), 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:18 # text = The father's words: «He's a good boy, but very light and volatile in character, and simply cannot hold his tongue. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 7 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 volatile volatile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 simply simply ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:aux|HaikuPos=VERB:MD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | father | a good boy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | father *not said here* | | | character | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **hold** *in a quote* | can | a good boy *not said here* | father's tongue | | | | simply *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 4 | **word** | | the father | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: 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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:18`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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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