--- title: A girl in Dublin has been doing homework for two hours every night;… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Dublin has been doing homework for two hours every night; her mum talks to the teacher, who explains it was meant to take only thirty minutes and changes it. Who acts: girl, mum, teacher. 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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, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:4 # text = A girl in Dublin has been doing homework for two hours every night; her mum talks to the teacher, who explains it was meant to take only thirty minutes and changes it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 254-classroom-rules-and-homework.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present · perfect · progressive | a girl in Dublin | homework | | | hour; night | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | | 2 | **talk** | present | girl's mum | | | | | to the teacher | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | past · passive | | Homework | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **change** | present | | Homework | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.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): 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: [Classroom rules and homework, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/3/) - next →: [Classroom rules and homework, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/)