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description: A girl in England hid a run of bad marks from her parents and teacher; by the time anyone found out, she was a long way behind and needed months of extra help. Who acts: girl, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 18

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A girl in England hid a run of bad marks from her parents and teacher; by the time anyone found out, she was a long way behind and needed months of extra help.

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**Who acts:** girl, anyone · **What happens:** hide, find out, be, need, run · **To what, where:** run, long way, bad marks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday 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 (girl, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:18
# text = A girl in England hid a run of bad marks from her parents and teacher; by the time anyone found out, she was a long way behind and needed months of extra help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.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
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	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | a girl in England | a run of bad marks |  |  |  | from girl's parents and teacher | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent run=Patient from parent=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **find out** | participle | anyone |  |  |  | time |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | girl | a long way |  |  |  | behind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** | past | a girl in England *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **run** |  |  | bad marks |  |  |  |  | nom run «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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