--- title: Theo in Leeds said he had been «proper poorly» (really ill) with a h… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Theo in Leeds said he had been «proper poorly» (really ill) with a headache, but a classmate had seen him playing football in the ginnel (a narrow alley between houses) that same evening. Who acts: Theo, classmate. A sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» of the everyday cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/) / 16 # «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 16 Theo in Leeds said he had been «proper poorly» (really ill) with a headache, but a classmate had seen him playing football in the ginnel (a narrow alley between houses) that same evening. **Who acts:** Theo, classmate · **What happens:** say, have, be, see, play · **To what, where:** Theo, football, ginnel · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Theo, classmate), 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:16 # text = Theo in Leeds said he had been «proper poorly» (really ill) with a headache, but a classmate had seen him playing football in the ginnel (a narrow alley between houses) that same evening. # 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): no change 1 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 9 proper properly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 10 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 really really ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 headache headache NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 27 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ginnel ginnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 alley alley NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 35 between between ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 38 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 . . 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 | Theo in Leeds | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | past | Theo | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | participle | Theo *not said here* | | | | | with a headache; ill, poorly, properly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect | a classmate | Theo | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | gerund | Theo *not said here* | football | | the ginnel | evening | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | 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:16`. **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): no change. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/15/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)