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title: When Gran was away, Ruby forgot to water her plants and then didn't… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics
description: When Gran was away, Ruby forgot to water her plants and then didn't bother. Who acts: Gran, Ruby. A sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chores you skipped, sentence 12

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When Gran was away, Ruby forgot to water her plants and then didn't bother.

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**Who acts:** Gran, Ruby · **What happens:** be, forget, not water, not bother · **To what, where:** plants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» 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 (Gran, Ruby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:12
# text = When Gran was away, Ruby forgot to water her plants and then didn't bother.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 350-chores-you-skipped.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	water	water	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | past | Gran |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Ruby |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **water** | to-infinitive | Ruby *not said here* | Ruby's plants |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent plant=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **bother** | past · do-support | Ruby *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:350-chores-you-skipped.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): 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/).

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