--- title: «Grand,» said Mrs Kelly, «bring me the dog's note then.» He did the… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: «Grand,» said Mrs Kelly, «bring me the dog's note then.» He did the homework at lunch and a note still went home, now about the homework AND the lie. Who acts: Mrs Kelly, Kelly, note, dog. 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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 (Mrs Kelly, Kelly, note, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:1 # text = «Grand,» said Mrs Kelly, «bring me the dog's note then.» He did the homework at lunch and a note still went home, now about the homework AND the lie. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Grand Grand ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Kelly Kelly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 19 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 AND and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mrs Kelly | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the dog's note | Mrs Kelly *= kelly* | | then | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination note=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past | Kelly | the homework | | lunch | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | | 4 | **go** | past | a note | | | | still | about the homework and the lie; home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about homework=Location | | 5 | **note** *in a quote* | | the dog | | | | | | nom note «communication 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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:1`. **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): 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: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/0/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)