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title: Picture Ruby crying at bedtime and her mum from Glasgow saying, "Wee… — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Ruby crying at bedtime and her mum from Glasgow saying, "Wee lassie, it's no' the end o' the world" ("lassie" means girl): talking about the worry, sleeping, eating well and taking breaks help far more than worrying harder. Who acts: you, mum, teacher, lassie. A sentence of the lesson «Writi
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# Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 4

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Picture Ruby crying at bedtime and her mum from Glasgow saying, "Wee lassie, it's no' the end o' the world" ("lassie" means girl): talking about the worry, sleeping, eating well and taking breaks help far more than worrying harder.

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**Who acts:** you, mum, teacher, lassie · **What happens:** picture, cry, say, be, mean, talk · **To what, where:** Ruby, bedtime, end, girl, breaks, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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, teacher, lassie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.lesson:4
# text = Picture Ruby crying at bedtime and her mum from Glasgow saying, "Wee lassie, it's no' the end o' the world" ("lassie" means girl): talking about the worry, sleeping, eating well and taking breaks help far more than worrying harder.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lassie	lassie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
23	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	26	case	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	lassie	lassie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:appos
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
33	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
36	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	nsubj	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
44	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
47	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
48	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
49	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
50	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	48	obj	_	_
51	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	worrying	worry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
53	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	52	advmod	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ruby |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | bedtime and Ruby's mum from Glasgow |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bedtime=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ruby's mum from Glasgow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | teacher | no end |  |  |  | of the world | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | lassie | girl |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 6 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the worry and sleeping | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic |
| 7 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | gerund |  | breaks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 9 | **help** | present |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
| 10 | **worry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.lesson:4`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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