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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 (Woman, you, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:14 # text = The Woman «picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves», strewed clean sand, lit a fire and hung «a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down», saying «Wipe you feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 2 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 strewed strew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 lit lit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 31 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 down down ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 43 « « PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Wipe wipe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:xcomp 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:obj 46 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 vocative _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 52 advmod _ _ 51 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:ccomp 53 in in ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 56 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 59 advmod _ _ 57 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 58 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 59 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 conj _ _ 60 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 62 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick out** *in a quote* | past | the Woman | a nice dry Cave | | | | instead a heap of wet leaves | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Patient | | 2 | **strew** | past | the Woman *not said here* | clean sand | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | | 3 | **lit** | past | the Woman *not said here* | a fire | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hang** | past | the Woman *not said here* | a dried horse skin | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 5 | **dry** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **wipe** *in a quote* | infinitive | | you's feet | | | | dear *vocative* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source | | 8 | **come in** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **keep** *in a quote* | future | we | house | | | now | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:14`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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