--- title: A "so" links a cause to its result: Ravi left his books at school, s… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: A "so" links a cause to its result: Ravi left his books at school, so he could not do his homework at home. Who acts: Ravi, cause. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Olympiad: tricky comprehension](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/) / 13 # Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 13 A "so" links a cause to its result: Ravi left his books at school, so he could not do his homework at home. **Who acts:** Ravi, cause · **What happens:** link, leave, not do, result · **To what, where:** cause, books, school, homework, home This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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, cause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:13 # text = A "so" links a cause to its result: Ravi left his books at school, so he could not do his homework at home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 links link VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Ravi Ravi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **link** | present | | a cause | | | | to cause's result | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cause=Patient to result=Co-Patient | | 2 | **leave** | past | Ravi | Ravi's books | | school | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Theme at school=Location | | 3 | **not** **do** | could | Ravi | Ravi's homework | | home | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | | 4 | **result** | | cause | | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/12/) - next →: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)