--- title: At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the bowl while the others played pass the parcel. Who acts: Finn, others. A sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/0/) [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/) / [Taking too much](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/) / 0 # Taking too much, sentence 0 At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the bowl while the others played pass the parcel. **Who acts:** Finn, others · **What happens:** eat, play, pass · **To what, where:** sweets, party, parcel This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:0 # text = At Maisie's party in Bristol, Finn ate nearly all the sweets in the bowl while the others played pass the parcel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Maisie Maisie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Bristol Bristol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 21 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 parcel parcel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | Finn | all sweets | | Maisie's party in Bristol | | in the bowl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient | | 2 | **play** | past | the others | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **pass** | infinitive | the others *not said here* | the parcel | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parcel=Trajectory | 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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:0`. **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. **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. 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