--- title: In "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big", "… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: In "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big", "it" means the trophy; with "too small", "it" means the suitcase. Who acts: trophy. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 8 In "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big", "it" means the trophy; with "too small", "it" means the suitcase. **Who acts:** trophy · **What happens:** not fit, be, mean · **To what, where:** suitcase, trophy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (trophy), 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:8 # text = In "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big", "it" means the trophy; with "too small", "it" means the suitcase. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:case 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 trophy trophy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 suitcase suitcase NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 advcl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 trophy trophy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 34 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 suitcase suitcase NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fit** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the trophy | | | the suitcase | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | trophy | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | the trophy | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trophy=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | trophy | the suitcase | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitcase=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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:8`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)