--- title: Even quiet Sam's family paid: his mum took a day off work to go to a… — What fights cost at home · tree and pragmatics description: Even quiet Sam's family paid: his mum took a day off work to go to a meeting about the bus-shelter boys who picked on him. Who acts: family, mum, shelter boys. 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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 (family, mum, shelter boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home.lesson:15 # text = Even quiet Sam's family paid: his mum took a day off work to go to a meeting about the bus-shelter boys who picked on him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 376-what-fights-cost-at-home.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 ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 3 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 14 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | quiet Sam's family | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take off** | past | family's mum | work | | | day | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | family's mum *not said here* | | | a meeting about the shelter boys | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **pick** | past | the shelter boys | | | | | on family | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on he=Patient | 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:376-what-fights-cost-at-home.lesson:15`. **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 ×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: [What fights cost at home, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/14/) - next →: [What fights cost at home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/)