--- title: Example: a boy in Glasgow introduces his family at a school play: «T… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics description: Example: a boy in Glasgow introduces his family at a school play: «This is my stepdad, Mark.» His teacher now knows exactly who Mark is. Who acts: boy, This, teacher, Mark. 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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, This, teacher, Mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:6 # text = Example: a boy in Glasgow introduces his family at a school play: «This is my stepdad, Mark.» His teacher now knows exactly who Mark is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 dep _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 introduces introduce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 stepdad stepdad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Mark Mark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 22 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 24 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 28 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 Mark Mark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **introduce** | present | a boy in Glasgow | boy's family | | a school play | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | my stepdad | | | | Mark *vocative* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | boy's teacher | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | Mark | | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | 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:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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