--- title: He said sorry to Maisie, and for the next party he brought a bag of… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: He said sorry to Maisie, and for the next party he brought a bag of sweets to share and handed them round first. Who acts: Finn. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Taking too much, sentence 3 He said sorry to Maisie, and for the next party he brought a bag of sweets to share and handed them round first. **Who acts:** Finn · **What happens:** say, bring, share, hand · **To what, where:** Maisie, bag, sweets · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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:3 # text = He said sorry to Maisie, and for the next party he brought a bag of sweets to share and handed them round first. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Maisie Maisie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 round round ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Finn | | Maisie | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maisie=Recipient | | 2 | **bring** | past | Finn | a bag of sweets | | | | for the next party | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | Finn *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hand** | past | Finn *not said here* | sweets *= sweet* | | | | first, round *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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