--- title: A week later Maddie was in a park scuffle when a police car pulled u… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics description: A week later Maddie was in a park scuffle when a police car pulled up; everyone scattered except Maddie, who stood there with a muddy knee. Who acts: Maddie, everyone. 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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 (Maddie, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:11 # text = A week later Maddie was in a park scuffle when a police car pulled up; everyone scattered except Maddie, who stood there with a muddy knee. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 scuffle scuffle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 nsubj _ _ 18 scattered scatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 except except ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Maddie | | | a park scuffle | week | | tree rules | | 2 | **pull up** | past · passive | | a police car | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **scatter** | past | everyone | | | | | except Maddie | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stand** | past | Maddie | | | there | | with a muddy knee | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:11`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [When the police come, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/10/) - next →: [When the police come, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/)