--- title: Mr Pryce, the head, asked him to explain exactly what had happened,… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics description: Mr Pryce, the head, asked him to explain exactly what had happened, and Jake realised he could not remember why he had hit the other boy. Who acts: Mr Pryce, Jake. 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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 (Mr Pryce, Jake), 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:1 # text = Mr Pryce, the head, asked him to explain exactly what had happened, and Jake realised he could not remember why he had hit the other boy. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Pryce Pryce PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 realised realise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 23 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 ccomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Mr Pryce | | secretary | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mr Pryce *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **realise** | past | Jake | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **remember** | could | Jake | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **hit** | past · perfect | Jake | the other boy | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme | 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:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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 and the head teacher, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/0/) - next →: [Jake and the head teacher, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/)