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title: A girl in Australia called Mia forgot to check the time and missed t… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Australia called Mia forgot to check the time and missed the last bus home from town; she was stuck at the stop after dark until her parents could drive out. Who acts: girl, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary 
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 19

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A girl in Australia called Mia forgot to check the time and missed the last bus home from town; she was stuck at the stop after dark until her parents could drive out.

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**Who acts:** girl, parents · **What happens:** call, forget, not check, miss, be, drive out · **To what, where:** girl, Mia, last bus, town, stop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» 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, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:19
# text = A girl in Australia called Mia forgot to check the time and missed the last bus home from town; she was stuck at the stop after dark until her parents could drive out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.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 ×1
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	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
6	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:aux:pass
23	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **call** | participle |  | a girl in Australia *not said here* | Mia |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient |
| 2 | **forget** | past | a girl in Australia |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **check** | to-infinitive | a girl in Australia *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **miss** | past | a girl in Australia *not said here* | the last bus |  | town |  | home *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | girl |  |  | the stop | after dark | stick *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drive out** | could | girl's parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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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