--- title: Priya in Leicester said the printer broke, and her teacher said «Lov… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Priya in Leicester said the printer broke, and her teacher said «Lovely, email it tonight then» — there was nothing to email. Who acts: Priya, printer, 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 (Priya, printer, 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:3 # text = Priya in Leicester said the printer broke, and her teacher said «Lovely, email it tonight then» — there was nothing to email. # 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 Priya Priya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Leicester Leicester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 printer printer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Lovely Lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 discourse _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 email email VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 tonight tonight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 email email VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 . . 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 | Priya in Leicester | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **break** | past | the printer | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Priya's teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **email** *in a quote* | infinitive | | teacher | | | then; tonight | | tree rules | | 5 | **email** | to-infinitive | Priya in Leicester *not said here* | | | | | | 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:3`. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/2/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)