--- title: A report card can also become a record of getting better. — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics description: A report card can also become a record of getting better. Who acts: report card, record. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Jake and the head teacher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/) / 23 # Jake and the head teacher, sentence 23 A report card can also become a record of getting better. **Who acts:** report card, record · **What happens:** become, get · **To what, where:** record 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 (report card, record), 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:23 # text = A report card can also become a record of getting better. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 of of SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 11 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | can | a report card | a record | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **get** | gerund | a record *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:23`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Jake and the head teacher, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/22/) - next →: [Jake and the head teacher, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/)