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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 (others, Badger, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:28 # text = The others promised to be «answerable for his good conduct» (to promise he would behave), and the Rat walked last, «with a firm grip on the shoulder of Toad». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 answerable answerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 conduct conduct NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 behave behave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 last last ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 grip grip NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Toad toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the others | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the others *not said here* | | | | | for Badger's good conduct; answerable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **behave** | would | Badger | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **walk** | past | the Rat | | | | | with a firm grip on the shoulder of Toad; last *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **conduct** *in a quote* | | Badger | | | | | | nom conduct «act 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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:28`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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