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title: Ava read Mum's emails and found out about a surprise trip: the surpr… — Snooping on phones, diaries and letters · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava read Mum's emails and found out about a surprise trip: the surprise was gone, and so was Mum's trust for a while. Who acts: Ava, surprise, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 14

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Ava read Mum's emails and found out about a surprise trip: the surprise was gone, and so was Mum's trust for a while.

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**Who acts:** Ava, surprise, Mum · **What happens:** read, find out, be, email · **To what, where:** emails, trust

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (Ava, surprise, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:14
# text = Ava read Mum's emails and found out about a surprise trip: the surprise was gone, and so was Mum's trust for a while.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **read** | past | Ava | Mum's emails |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent email=Topic |
| 2 | **find out** | past | Ava *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about a surprise trip | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about trip=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the surprise |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the surprise *not said here* | Mum's trust |  |  | while |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **email** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:14`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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