--- title: Sam ran up the aisle and knocked over the candles: someone could hav… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics description: Sam ran up the aisle and knocked over the candles: someone could have been burnt, and the cloth was spoiled with wax; he said sorry to the vicar (the priest in some churches) and helped scrape off the wax. Who acts: Sam, cloth. 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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 (Sam, cloth), 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:16 # text = Sam ran up the aisle and knocked over the candles: someone could have been burnt, and the cloth was spoiled with wax; he said sorry to the vicar (the priest in some churches) and helped scrape off the wax. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 aisle aisle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 over over ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 burnt burnt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cop 22 spoiled spoil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 28 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 41 scrape scrape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run up** | past | Sam | the aisle | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **knock over** | past | Sam *not said here* | the candles | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | | 3 | **burnt** | could · perfect · passive | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spoil** | past · passive | | the cloth | | | | with wax | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | cloth | | the vicar | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vicar=Recipient | | 6 | **help** | past | cloth *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **scrape off** | infinitive | cloth *not said here* | the wax | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Patient | 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:16`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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