--- title: Ruby in Glasgow said her wee (little) brother scribbled on it so she… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby in Glasgow said her wee (little) brother scribbled on it so she binned it; really she was stuck after one line. Who acts: Ruby, wee little brother. 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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 (Ruby, wee little brother), 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:11 # text = Ruby in Glasgow said her wee (little) brother scribbled on it so she binned it; really she was stuck after one line. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:poss 6 wee wee ADJ NN Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 scribbled scribble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 binned bin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Ruby in Glasgow | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **scribble** | past | Ruby's wee little brother | | | juice | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination | | 3 | **bin** | past | Ruby | juice | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | Ruby | | | | after one line | stuck *property* | tree rules | 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:11`. **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 ×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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/10/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)