--- title: Nobody checked, so she got away with it — and the next week the same… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody checked, so she got away with it — and the next week the same sums came up in a test and she got a bad mark, because nobody had helped her. Who acts: Nobody, Ruby, same sums. 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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 (Nobody, Ruby, same sums), 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:12 # text = Nobody checked, so she got away with it — and the next week the same sums came up in a test and she got a bad mark, because nobody had helped her. # 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 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 up up ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | past | Nobody | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get away** | past | Ruby | | | | | with juice; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come up** | past | the same sums | | | a test | week | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in test=Location | | 4 | **get** | past | Ruby | a bad mark | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | | 5 | **help** | past · perfect | nobody | | Ruby | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | 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:12`. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/11/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)