--- title: Zara in Cape Town said load-shedding had stopped her, but her teache… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Zara in Cape Town said load-shedding had stopped her, but her teacher checked the power-cut schedule: that evening the cut was in another part of town, not in her area. Who acts: Zara, load shedding, teacher, cut. 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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 (Zara, load shedding, teacher, cut), 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:15 # text = Zara in Cape Town said load-shedding had stopped her, but her teacher checked the power-cut schedule: that evening the cut was in another part of town, not in her area. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 shedding shedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 schedule schedule NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 38 . . 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 | Zara in Cape Town | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | past · perfect | load shedding | Zara | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality | | 3 | **check** | past | Zara's teacher | the cut schedule | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schedule=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the cut | | | another part | evening | of town and Zara's area | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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