--- title: I forgot my PE kit and Mr Hall made me wear spare shorts that were m… — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics description: I forgot my PE kit and Mr Hall made me wear spare shorts that were massive.» It uses «I», feelings, and contractions like «I'm» and «can't» that sound like talking. Who acts: I, Mr, me, spare shorts. 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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 (I, Mr, me, spare shorts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:13 # text = I forgot my PE kit and Mr Hall made me wear spare shorts that were massive.» It uses «I», feelings, and contractions like «I'm» and «can't» that sound like talking. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 PE pe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 spare spare NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 shorts short NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=SCONJ:'':_ 19 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 contractions contraction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 36 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 38 » » VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:det 40 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 like like SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | past | I | my PE kit | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past | Mr | me | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wear** | infinitive | me *not said here* | spare shorts | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent short=Source | | 4 | **is** | past | spare shorts | | | | | massive *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **use** *in a quote* | present | kit | the first paragraph *= paragraph* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **»** | can | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sound** *in a quote* | | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **talk** *in a quote* | gerund | the first paragraph *= paragraph* *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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