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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 (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:17 # text = Toad «came down to breakfast disgracefully late» and found «a certain quantity of egg-shells, some fragments of cold and leathery toast, a coffee-pot three-fourths empty». # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 disgracefully disgracefully ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 8 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 fragments fragment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 leathery leathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 coffee coffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 33 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 fourths fourth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 acl _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come down** *in a quote* | past | Toad | | | breakfast | | down, late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **find** | past | Toad *not said here* | a certain quantity of egg shells and some fragments of cold toast and a coffee pot | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:17`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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