--- title: Sophie called Grandad's stories boring and he stopped telling them —… — Rude words at the table · tree and pragmatics description: Sophie called Grandad's stories boring and he stopped telling them — until she said sorry and asked him for one. Who acts: Sophie, Ella. A sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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/354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you/16/) [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/) / [Rude words at the table](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you/) / 16 # Rude words at the table, sentence 16 Sophie called Grandad's stories boring and he stopped telling them — until she said sorry and asked him for one. **Who acts:** Sophie, Ella · **What happens:** call, stop, tell, say, ask · **To what, where:** stories, Sophie · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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 (Sophie, Ella), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:16 # text = Sophie called Grandad's stories boring and he stopped telling them — until she said sorry and asked him for one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1 1 Sophie Sophie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 — - PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 16 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 18 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 22 . . 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 | **call** | past | Sophie | Grandad's stories | | | | boring *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **stop** | past | Sophie | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sophie *not said here* | | stories *= story* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Ella | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ella *not said here* | | Sophie | | | for one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | 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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rude words at the table, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you/15/) - next →: [Rude words at the table, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you/)