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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 (boy, friend, pupil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:25 # text = A boy in Leeds kept quiet when a friend showed him a knife in his bag; a few days later another pupil was cut in a fight, and he wished he had told a teacher. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl:unmarked 21 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 ccomp _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **keep** | past | a boy in Leeds | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | past | a friend | a knife | boy | boy's bag | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient knife=Topic | | 3 | **cut** | past · passive | | another pupil | | a fight | | late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **wish** | past | pupil | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | pupil | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | 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. 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