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title: Maya grumbled «it's only one dinner» and went to bed in a huff, but… — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics
description: Maya grumbled «it's only one dinner» and went to bed in a huff, but in the morning she apologised, fed him first thing, and set a reminder on the kitchen clock so it would not happen again. Who acts: Maya, cat, it. A sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Promises to family, sentence 7

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Maya grumbled «it's only one dinner» and went to bed in a huff, but in the morning she apologised, fed him first thing, and set a reminder on the kitchen clock so it would not happen again.

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**Who acts:** Maya, cat, it · **What happens:** grumble, be, go, apologise, feed, set · **To what, where:** one dinner, huff, Oliver, reminder, kitchen clock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Maya, cat, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:7
# text = Maya grumbled «it's only one dinner» and went to bed in a huff, but in the morning she apologised, fed him first thing, and set a reminder on the kitchen clock so it would not happen again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	huff	huff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	apologised	apologise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
25	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
28	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	reminder	reminder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | Maya |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cat | one dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | Maya *not said here* |  |  | a huff |  | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | past | Maya |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feed** | past | Maya *not said here* |  | Oliver |  |  | first thing *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **set** | past | Maya *not said here* | a reminder |  | the kitchen clock |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent reminder=Theme on clock=Destination |
| 7 | **not** **happen** | would | it |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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