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title: The officer asked calm, plain questions and wrote Kieran's name in h… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics
description: The officer asked calm, plain questions and wrote Kieran's name in her notebook. Who acts: officer, Kieran. A sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the police come, sentence 4

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The officer asked calm, plain questions and wrote Kieran's name in her notebook.

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**Who acts:** officer, Kieran · **What happens:** ask, write, name · **To what, where:** calm plain questions, name, notebook

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (officer, Kieran), 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:4
# text = The officer asked calm, plain questions and wrote Kieran's name in her notebook.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the officer | calm plain questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 2 | **write** | past | the officer *not said here* | Kieran's name |  | mum's notebook |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in notebook=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:4`.

**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): R6-punct-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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