--- title: Mr Pryce invited the parents of both streets into the school hall, w… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: Mr Pryce invited the parents of both streets into the school hall, with tea and biscuits, to talk about the fights, and the community police officer started playing football on the rec on Saturday mornings with kids from both streets — he was terrible in goal and everyone loved it. 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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 (Mr Pryce, police officer, officer, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:13 # text = Mr Pryce invited the parents of both streets into the school hall, with tea and biscuits, to talk about the fights, and the community police officer started playing football on the rec on Saturday mornings with kids from both streets — he was terrible in goal and everyone loved it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mr mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 2 Pryce Pryce PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 biscuits biscuit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 community community NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rec rec NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 mornings morning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 44 — - PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 52 nsubj _ _ 52 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **invite** | past | Mr Pryce | | the parents of both streets | the school hall | | with tea and biscuits | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive | Mr Pryce *not said here* | | | | | about the fights | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fight=Topic | | 3 | **start** | past | the police officer | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **play** | gerund | the police officer *not said here* | football | | the rec | morning | with kids from both streets | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent football=Theme with kid=Co-Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | officer | | | goal | | terrible *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **love** | past | everyone | football | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:13`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/12/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)