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title: On Friday Finn told the teacher it was him, said sorry to Rory and s… — When someone else takes your punishment · tree and pragmatics
description: On Friday Finn told the teacher it was him, said sorry to Rory and scrubbed the wall clean himself. Who acts: Finn, friend. A sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 4

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On Friday Finn told the teacher it was him, said sorry to Rory and scrubbed the wall clean himself.

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**Who acts:** Finn, friend · **What happens:** tell, be, say, scrub, clean · **To what, where:** teacher, sorry, wall, Finn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» 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 (Finn, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:4
# text = On Friday Finn told the teacher it was him, said sorry to Rory and scrubbed the wall clean himself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Rory	Rory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
16	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Finn |  | the teacher |  | friday |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | friend | teacher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Finn *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 4 | **scrub** | past | Finn *not said here* | the wall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **clean** | infinitive | Finn *not said here* | Finn |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=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:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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