--- title: Kai in Manchester said «I left it at home, sir» on Monday, Tuesday a… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Kai in Manchester said «I left it at home, sir» on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; on Thursday nobody believed it any more, and his teacher rang home. Who acts: Kai, nobody, teacher. 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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 (Kai, nobody, teacher), 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:14 # text = Kai in Manchester said «I left it at home, sir» on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; on Thursday nobody believed it any more, and his teacher rang home. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 24 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 any any ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Ind 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 33 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . 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 | Kai in Manchester | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | Kai in Manchester *= kai* | mark | | home | monday | sir *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **believe** | past | nobody | mark | | | thursday | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **ring** | past | Kai's teacher | | | | | home *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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