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title: A police officer came round and gave Nathan a warning, Dad paid for… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: A police officer came round and gave Nathan a warning, Dad paid for the repair, and for a while the neighbours looked at him differently. Who acts: police officer, Dad, neighbours. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 5

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A police officer came round and gave Nathan a warning, Dad paid for the repair, and for a while the neighbours looked at him differently.

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**Who acts:** police officer, Dad, neighbours · **What happens:** come round, give, pay, look · **To what, where:** warning, Nathan

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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 (police officer, Dad, neighbours), 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:5
# text = A police officer came round and gave Nathan a warning, Dad paid for the repair, and for a while the neighbours looked at him differently.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come round** | past | a police officer |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | a police officer *not said here* | a warning | Nathan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nathan=Recipient warning=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | past | Dad |  |  |  |  | for the repair | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for repair=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | the neighbours |  |  |  | while | at Nathan; differently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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