--- title: As the collection plate went past in church in Boston, Matthew slipp… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics description: As the collection plate went past in church in Boston, Matthew slipped out a coin to buy sweets after the service. Who acts: collection plate, Matthew. 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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 (collection plate, Matthew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:0 # text = As the collection plate went past in church in Boston, Matthew slipped out a coin to buy sweets after the service. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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 ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 past past ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Matthew Matthew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 . . 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 | **go past** | past | the collection plate | | | church | | in Boston; past *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in church=Location | | 2 | **slip out** | past | Matthew | a coin | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent coin=Patient | | 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Matthew *not said here* | sweets | | | after the service | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | 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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:0`. **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 ×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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