--- title: A girl in Edinburgh knocks a vase off a shelf at her friend's house;… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Edinburgh knocks a vase off a shelf at her friend's house; she tells the mum at once and says sorry, and the mum is far less upset than if she had found it hidden. Who acts: girl, mum. 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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 (girl, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:4 # text = A girl in Edinburgh knocks a vase off a shelf at her friend's house; she tells the mum at once and says sorry, and the mum is far less upset than if she had found it hidden. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Edinburgh Edinburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 knocks knock 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 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:discourse 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 33 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 34 than than SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nsubj 40 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 41 . . 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 | **knock off** | present | a girl in Edinburgh | a vase | | girl's friend's house | | a shelf *obl* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | girl | | the mum | | | once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the mum | | | | | less, upset *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | girl | vase | | | | hidden *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.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 ×1, 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. 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