--- title: But on the day he had to act surprised, the surprise felt flat, and… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: But on the day he had to act surprised, the surprise felt flat, and he felt guilty every time Mum smiled. Who acts: Ethan, day, surprise, Mum. 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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 (Ethan, day, surprise, Mum), 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:2 # text = But on the day he had to act surprised, the surprise felt flat, and he felt guilty every time Mum smiled. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl:unmarked 22 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 24 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Ethan | the day *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **act** | to-infinitive | the day *not said here* | | | | | surprised *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | past | the surprise | | | | day | flat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **feel** | past | Ethan | | | | time | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **smile** | past | Mum | every time *not said here* | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Topic | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Peeking at presents and secrets, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/1/) - next →: [Peeking at presents and secrets, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/)