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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 (Otter), 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:23 # text = Otter dressed up as a sweep (a chimney-sweep) with brushes over his shoulder and asked at the back door for a job — and so found out the news. # 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 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 dressed dress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sweep sweep NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 sweep sweep NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 brushes brush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 — - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **dress up** | past | Otter | | | | | as a sweep | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Otter *not said here* | | | the back door | | for a job | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find out** | past | Otter *not said here* | the news | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | 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:23`. **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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