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title: He got away with it all winter and nearly forgot — then Dad dug the… — Accidents told too late · tree and pragmatics
description: He got away with it all winter and nearly forgot — then Dad dug the pieces up planting tomatoes in spring. Who acts: Leo, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Accidents told too late, sentence 12

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He got away with it all winter and nearly forgot — then Dad dug the pieces up planting tomatoes in spring.

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**Who acts:** Leo, Dad · **What happens:** get away, forget, dig up, plant · **To what, where:** pieces, tomatoes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» 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 (Leo, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:12
# text = He got away with it all winter and nearly forgot — then Dad dug the pieces up planting tomatoes in spring.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 343-accidents-told-too-late.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
14	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound:prt
18	planting	plant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
19	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get away** | past | Leo |  |  |  | winter | with friend; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Leo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig up** | past | Dad | the pieces |  |  | then |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 4 | **plant** | gerund | Dad *not said here* | tomatoes |  |  | spring |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomato=Patient |

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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:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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