--- title: Sophie changed «needs improvement» on her report to «needs no improv… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics description: Sophie changed «needs improvement» on her report to «needs no improvement»; her dad, a teacher himself, laughed out loud, then stopped laughing. Who acts: Sophie, dad. 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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 (Sophie, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:11 # text = Sophie changed «needs improvement» on her report to «needs no improvement»; her dad, a teacher himself, laughed out loud, then stopped laughing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Sophie Sophie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 improvement improvement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 obl _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 improvement improvement NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 loud loud ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past | Sophie | | | Sophie's report | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** *in a quote* | present | Sophie *not said here* | improvement | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot improvement=Theme | | 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | | no improvement | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot improvement=Theme | | 4 | **laugh out** | past | Sophie's dad | | | | | loud, out *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | past | Sophie's dad *not said here* | | | | then | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **laugh** | gerund | Sophie's dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **report** | | Sophie | | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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