--- title: Speech can be split in the middle: "If you're ready," said Mum, "we'… — Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers · tree and pragmatics description: Speech can be split in the middle: "If you're ready," said Mum, "we'll go." The second part starts with a small letter because it is still the same sentence. Who acts: you, Mum, we, second part. 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The second part starts with a small letter because it is still the same sentence. **Who acts:** you, Mum, we, second part, speech · **What happens:** split, be, say, go, start · **To what, where:** Speech, middle, same sentence · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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 (you, Mum, we, second part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:3 # text = Speech can be split in the middle: "If you're ready," said Mum, "we'll go." The second part starts with a small letter because it is still the same sentence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 25 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 27 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | can · passive | | Speech | | the middle | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | future | we | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **start** | present | the second part | | | | | with a small letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality | | 6 | **is a** | present | speech | the same sentence | | | still | | tree rules | 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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:3`. **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): R8-pos-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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