--- title: She confessed it at church, felt the weight lift, and then did what… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics description: She confessed it at church, felt the weight lift, and then did what the priest said: told Gran herself and bought her a new plant with her own money. Who acts: Ruby, priest. 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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 (Ruby, priest), 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:14 # text = She confessed it at church, felt the weight lift, and then did what the priest said: told Gran herself and bought her a new plant with her own money. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 confessed confess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 appos _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confess** | past | Ruby | plan | | church | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **feel** | past | Ruby *not said here* | the weight lift | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lift=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past | Ruby *not said here* | | | | then | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the priest | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ruby *not said here* | | Gran | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gran=Recipient | | 6 | **buy** | past | Ruby *not said here* | a new plant | Ruby | | | with Ruby's own money | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary plant=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:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Chores you skipped, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/13/) - next →: [Chores you skipped, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/)