--- title: That evening he told Dad, who was very serious with him; on Saturday… — Going where you're not allowed · tree and pragmatics description: That evening he told Dad, who was very serious with him; on Saturday he told it at confession too, and walked home lighter, with a promise never to touch them again. Who acts: Tom, Dad. 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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 (Tom, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:9 # text = That evening he told Dad, who was very serious with him; on Saturday he told it at confession too, and walked home lighter, with a promise never to touch them again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 25 home home ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 26 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tom | | Dad | | evening | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | Dad | | | | | with Tom; serious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tom | | finger | confession | saturday | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 4 | **walk** | past | Tom *not said here* | | | | | with a promise; home, light *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **touch** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | fright | | | again | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:9`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Going where you're not allowed, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/8/) - next →: [Going where you're not allowed, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/)