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title: But every night he left the hall light on "by accident".» The quotat… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics
description: But every night he left the hall light on "by accident".» The quotation marks tell you it wasn't an accident at all. Who acts: Ravi, quotation marks, light. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 13

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But every night he left the hall light on "by accident".» The quotation marks tell you it wasn't an accident at all.

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**Who acts:** Ravi, quotation marks, light · **What happens:** leave, tell, not be · **To what, where:** hall light, accident, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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 (Ravi, quotation marks, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:13
# text = But every night he left the hall light on "by accident".» The quotation marks tell you it wasn't an accident at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.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): no change
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	quotation	quotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Ravi | the hall light |  | accident | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the quotation marks |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | light | a accident |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.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): no change. **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/).

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