--- title: Noah posted it back with a sorry letter he wrote himself. — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics description: Noah posted it back with a sorry letter he wrote himself. Who acts: Noah. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Borrowing without asking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/) / 2 # Borrowing without asking, sentence 2 Noah posted it back with a sorry letter he wrote himself. **Who acts:** Noah · **What happens:** post back, write · **To what, where:** few, Noah This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» 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 (Noah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:2 # text = Noah posted it back with a sorry letter he wrote himself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 339-borrowing-without-asking.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): no change 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 posted post VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **post back** | past | Noah | few | | | | with a sorry letter | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **write** | past | Noah | Noah | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | 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:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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: [Borrowing without asking, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/1/) - next →: [Borrowing without asking, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/)