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title: So Jamie said sorry to Mrs Reid at her door, painted her porch on Sa… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics
description: So Jamie said sorry to Mrs Reid at her door, painted her porch on Saturdays and walked her dog after school for a month. Who acts: Jamie. A sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 10

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So Jamie said sorry to Mrs Reid at her door, painted her porch on Saturdays and walked her dog after school for a month.

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**Who acts:** Jamie · **What happens:** say, paint, walk · **To what, where:** Mrs, porch, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (Jamie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:10
# text = So Jamie said sorry to Mrs Reid at her door, painted her porch on Saturdays and walked her dog after school for a month.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Reid	Reid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
12	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Jamie |  | Mrs at Jamie's door |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mrs=Recipient |
| 2 | **paint** | past | Jamie *not said here* | Jamie's porch |  |  | saturday |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent porch=Destination |
| 3 | **walk** | past | Jamie *not said here* | Jamie's dog |  |  | after school; month |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:10`.

**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, R8-pos-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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