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title: Owen looked in the teacher's desk while she was out; she came back,… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Owen looked in the teacher's desk while she was out; she came back, saw him, and he stayed in at break. Who acts: Owen, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 11

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Owen looked in the teacher's desk while she was out; she came back, saw him, and he stayed in at break.

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**Who acts:** Owen, teacher · **What happens:** look, be, come back, see, stay in · **To what, where:** teacher, break

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Owen, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:11
# text = Owen looked in the teacher's desk while she was out; she came back, saw him, and he stayed in at break.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **look** | past | Owen |  |  |  |  | in the teacher's desk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in desk=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Owen |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come back** | past | Owen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | Owen *not said here* | teacher |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stay in** | past | teacher |  |  | break |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at break=Location |

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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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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