--- title: Mia used a game set in ancient Egypt to start her history project an… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: Mia used a game set in ancient Egypt to start her history project and then checked every fact in library books, because games change history to make it exciting. Who acts: Mia, games. 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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 (Mia, games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:15 # text = Mia used a game set in ancient Egypt to start her history project and then checked every fact in library books, because games change history to make it exciting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 419-homework-first.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 4 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **use** | past | Mia | a game | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient | | 2 | **set** | participle | | a game *not said here* | | ancient Egypt | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in egypt=Destination | | 3 | **start** | to-infinitive | Mia *not said here* | Mia's history project | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Eventuality | | 4 | **check** | past | Mia *not said here* | every fact | | library books | then | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | | 5 | **change** | present | games | history | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | games *not said here* | history | | | | exciting *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 7 | **project** | | Mia | | | | | | nom project «act transitive»: poss=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:419-homework-first.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Homework first?, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/14/) - next →: [Homework first?, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)