--- title: Noah kicked the pew all through the sermon (the priest's long talk);… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics description: Noah kicked the pew all through the sermon (the priest's long talk); next time he tried to listen for one thing the vicar said. Who acts: Noah, vicar, priest. 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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 (Noah, vicar, priest), 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:17 # text = Noah kicked the pew all through the sermon (the priest's long talk); next time he tried to listen for one thing the vicar said. # 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): no change 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kicked kick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pew pew NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sermon sermon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 17 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **kick** | past | Noah | the pew | | the sermon | time | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pew=Patient through sermon=Location | | 2 | **try** | past | Noah | next time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **listen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Noah *not said here* | | | | | for one thing | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the vicar | one thing *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **talk** | | the priest | | | | | | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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. 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