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title: Then Jake was put on report and needed a teacher's signature after e… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jake was put on report and needed a teacher's signature after every lesson; after two weeks the card was full of good comments, and he showed it to his gran. Who acts: card, Jake, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Jake and the head teacher, sentence 12

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Then Jake was put on report and needed a teacher's signature after every lesson; after two weeks the card was full of good comments, and he showed it to his gran.

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**Who acts:** card, Jake, teacher · **What happens:** put, need, be, show, sign · **To what, where:** Jake, report, signature, card, gran

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (card, Jake, teacher), 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:12
# text = Then Jake was put on report and needed a teacher's signature after every lesson; after two weeks the card was full of good comments, and he showed it to his gran.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | Jake |  | report | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on report=Destination |
| 2 | **need** | past |  | a teacher's signature |  |  | after every lesson |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot signature=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the card |  |  |  | week | of good comments; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | past | Jake | card | Jake's gran |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to gran=Recipient |
| 5 | **sign** |  | a teacher |  |  |  |  |  | nom signature «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2, 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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