--- title: Jake had been sent to the head teacher's office so often that the se… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics description: Jake had been sent to the head teacher's office so often that the secretary just said «the usual chair, Jake?» He laughed, but felt a bit ashamed. Who acts: secretary. 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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 (secretary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:0 # text = Jake had been sent to the head teacher's office so often that the secretary just said «the usual chair, Jake?» He laughed, but felt a bit ashamed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 secretary secretary NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 26 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | | Jake | | the head teacher's office | | often *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to office=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the secretary | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **laugh** | past | secretary | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** | past | secretary *not said here* | | | | | ashamed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Jake, always in bruises, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/29/) - next →: [Jake and the head teacher, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/)