--- title: Josh started his lost-dog story before the teacher finished talking;… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics description: Josh started his lost-dog story before the teacher finished talking; ten minutes later the dog was stuck in a cupboard and Josh had no idea how to get it out, because he had never decided on an ending. Who acts: Josh, teacher, dog. 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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 (Josh, teacher, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:1 # text = Josh started his lost-dog story before the teacher finished talking; ten minutes later the dog was stuck in a cupboard and Josh had no idea how to get it out, because he had never decided on an ending. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 039-planning-before-writing.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 ×3 1 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 4 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 decided decide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | Josh | Josh's dog story | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **finish** | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | the teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | the dog | | | a cupboard | | late, stuck *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | Josh | no idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 7 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Josh *not said here* | idea | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **decide** | past · perfect | Josh | | | | | on a ending | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on ending=Topic | 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:039-planning-before-writing.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): R5-strong ×3. **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: [Planning before writing, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/0/) - next →: [Planning before writing, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/)