--- title: It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «kne… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics description: It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work». Who acts: It, whole, corners. A sentence of the lesson «Family game night» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Family game night](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/) / 2 # Family game night, sentence 2 It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work». **Who acts:** It, whole, corners · **What happens:** turn out, drive, know, work · **To what, where:** delivery van · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Family game night» 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 (It, whole, corners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:425-family-game-night.lesson:2 # text = It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 425-family-game-night.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 ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 delivery delivery NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 van van NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn out** | past | It | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drive** | past · perfect | whole | a delivery van | | | year | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent van=Theme | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **work** *in a quote* | present | corners | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «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:425-family-game-night.lesson:2`. **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 ×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: [Family game night, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/1/) - next →: [Family game night, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/)