--- title: Letters addressed to someone are for that person; in many countries… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: Letters addressed to someone are for that person; in many countries opening another person's post on purpose is against the law. Who acts: Letters, opening. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Letters, opening), 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:17 # text = Letters addressed to someone are for that person; in many countries opening another person's post on purpose is against the law. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 addressed address VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obl _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 13 opening open VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **address** | participle | | Letters *not said here* | | | | to someone | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Letters | | | | | for that person | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | gerund | | another person's post | | purpose | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent post=Theme on purpose=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | opening | | | many countries | | against the law | tree rules | 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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:17`. **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): R2-punct-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. 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