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title: She crept downstairs, said sorry and that she loved her, and Mum sai… — Rude words at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: She crept downstairs, said sorry and that she loved her, and Mum said «I know. Who acts: Zoe, Mum. 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.
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# Rude words at the table, sentence 8

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She crept downstairs, said sorry and that she loved her, and Mum said «I know.

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**Who acts:** Zoe, Mum · **What happens:** creep, say, love, know · **To what, where:** sorry, Mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Zoe, Mum), 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:8
# text = She crept downstairs, said sorry and that she loved her, and Mum said «I know.
# 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): no change
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | Zoe |  |  |  |  | downstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zoe *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 3 | **love** | past | Zoe | Mum |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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/).

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