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title: When Ben called his uncle a name after his uncle teased him, Dad sen… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ben called his uncle a name after his uncle teased him, Dad sent Ben to the car for five minutes; when Ben came back and said sorry, his uncle said sorry too for the teasing. Who acts: Ben, uncle, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova
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# Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 13

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When Ben called his uncle a name after his uncle teased him, Dad sent Ben to the car for five minutes; when Ben came back and said sorry, his uncle said sorry too for the teasing.

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**Who acts:** Ben, uncle, Dad · **What happens:** call, tease, send, come back, say · **To what, where:** uncle, Ben, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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 (Ben, uncle, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:13
# text = When Ben called his uncle a name after his uncle teased him, Dad sent Ben to the car for five minutes; when Ben came back and said sorry, his uncle said sorry too for the teasing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	teased	tease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
35	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Ben | Ben's uncle |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme name=Result |
| 2 | **tease** | past | Ben's uncle | Ben |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past | Dad | Ben |  | the car | minute |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ben=Theme to car=Destination |
| 4 | **come back** | past | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Ben *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Ben's uncle |  |  |  |  | for the teasing; sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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