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title: A few weeks later, bored and lazy after school, he was egged on by o… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: A few weeks later, bored and lazy after school, he was egged on by older boys and threw a firecracker at old Mrs Doyle's door. Who acts: older boys. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 3

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A few weeks later, bored and lazy after school, he was egged on by older boys and threw a firecracker at old Mrs Doyle's door.

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**Who acts:** older boys · **What happens:** egg on, throw · **To what, where:** Nathan, firecracker, old door

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (older boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:3
# text = A few weeks later, bored and lazy after school, he was egged on by older boys and threw a firecracker at old Mrs Doyle's door.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	egged	egg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **egg on** | past · passive | older boys | Nathan |  |  |  | late *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **throw** | past | older boys *not said here* | a firecracker |  | Mrs's old door |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent firecracker=Theme at door=Destination |

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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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:3`.

**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 ×3. **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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