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title: His teacher smoothed it out — the juice was only on the empty half —… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics
description: His teacher smoothed it out — the juice was only on the empty half — and raised one eyebrow. Who acts: teacher, juice. A sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 10

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His teacher smoothed it out — the juice was only on the empty half — and raised one eyebrow.

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**Who acts:** teacher, juice · **What happens:** smooth out, be, raise · **To what, where:** juice, empty half, one eyebrow

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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 (teacher, juice), 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:10
# text = His teacher smoothed it out — the juice was only on the empty half — and raised one eyebrow.
# 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	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	eyebrow	eyebrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smooth out** | past | Jayden's teacher | juice |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the juice |  |  | the empty half |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **raise** | past | Jayden's teacher *not said here* | one eyebrow |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyebrow=Theme |

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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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.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): 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/).

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