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title: The letter was done, but the bad feeling was not: every morning he c… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: The letter was done, but the bad feeling was not: every morning he crossed with his eyes on the ground. Who acts: letter, feeling. A sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 3

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The letter was done, but the bad feeling was not: every morning he crossed with his eyes on the ground.

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**Who acts:** letter, feeling · **What happens:** be, cross

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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 (letter, feeling), 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:3
# text = The letter was done, but the bad feeling was not: every morning he crossed with his eyes on the ground.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the letter |  |  |  |  | done *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | past | feeling |  |  |  | morning | with feeling's eyes on the ground | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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): 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/).

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