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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 (this, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:13 # text = But, O dear, O dear, this is a hard world!» He leaves, pressing his handkerchief to his face. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 O of INTJ UH Abbr=Yes 4 discourse _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 O of INTJ UH Abbr=Yes 7 discourse _ _ 7 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | this | a hard world | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | Toad | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **press** *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | Toad's handkerchief | | | | to Toad's face | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): R6-punct-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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