--- title: «Lily slammed the door and threw her bag on the floor.» The text nev… — Inference: reading between the lines · tree and pragmatics description: «Lily slammed the door and threw her bag on the floor.» The text never says «angry», but slamming and throwing are clues, and the clues show it. Who acts: Lily, text, clues. A sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Inference: reading between the lines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/) / 1 # Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 1 «Lily slammed the door and threw her bag on the floor.» The text never says «angry», but slamming and throwing are clues, and the clues show it. **Who acts:** Lily, text, clues · **What happens:** slam, throw, not say, be, show · **To what, where:** door, bag, floor, angry, clues, text · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lily, text, clues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:1 # text = «Lily slammed the door and threw her bag on the floor.» The text never says «angry», but slamming and throwing are clues, and the clues show it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 slammed slam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 15 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 slamming slam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **slam** *in a quote* | past | Lily | the door | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 2 | **throw** *in a quote* | past | Lily *not said here* | Lily's bag | | the floor | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on floor=Destination | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | the text | angry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent angry=Topic | | 4 | **slam** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **throw** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | | clues | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **show** | present | the clues | text | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Inference: reading between the lines, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/0/) - next →: [Inference: reading between the lines, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/)