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title: For a fortnight the teacher did not notice — until the book fell apa… — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics
description: For a fortnight the teacher did not notice — until the book fell apart in her hands. Who acts: teacher, book. A sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spoiling and losing things, sentence 1

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For a fortnight the teacher did not notice — until the book fell apart in her hands.

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**Who acts:** teacher, book · **What happens:** not notice, fall apart · **To what, where:** hands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» 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 (teacher, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:1
# text = For a fortnight the teacher did not notice — until the book fell apart in her hands.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.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): no change
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | the teacher |  |  |  | fortnight |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall apart** | past | the book |  |  | book's hands |  | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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