--- title: The first time Ruby didn't start it, the teacher never asked, and sh… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics description: The first time Ruby didn't start it, the teacher never asked, and she thought she always could skip it. Who acts: Ruby, teacher. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Chores you skipped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/) / 6 # Chores you skipped, sentence 6 The first time Ruby didn't start it, the teacher never asked, and she thought she always could skip it. **Who acts:** Ruby, teacher · **What happens:** not start, not ask, think, skip · **To what, where:** Homework · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ruby, teacher), 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:6 # text = The first time Ruby didn't start it, the teacher never asked, and she thought she always could skip it. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 skip skip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **start** | past · do-support | Ruby | Homework | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the teacher | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ruby | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **skip** | could | Ruby | Homework | | | | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/5/) - next →: [Chores you skipped, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/)