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title: Mr Bell, Noah's teacher, says he can tell who played late from the y… — Sleep and school mornings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr Bell, Noah's teacher, says he can tell who played late from the yawns: «Front row, three yawns, all before register. Who acts: Mr Bell, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Sleep and school mornings, sentence 10

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Mr Bell, Noah's teacher, says he can tell who played late from the yawns: «Front row, three yawns, all before register.

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**Who acts:** Mr Bell, teacher · **What happens:** say, tell, play · **To what, where:** yawns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» 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 (Mr Bell, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:10
# text = Mr Bell, Noah's teacher, says he can tell who played late from the yawns: «Front row, three yawns, all before register.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 418-sleep-and-school-mornings.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): no change
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	yawns	yawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	yawns	yawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mr Bell |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | teacher |  |  |  | before all register |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **play** | past |  |  |  | the yawns |  | late *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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