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title: Emma's mum trusted her to tick her own reading log, and Emma ticked… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics
description: Emma's mum trusted her to tick her own reading log, and Emma ticked days she hadn't read; her reading level stayed still, she owned up, and breaking Mum's trust hurt more than any punishment. Who acts: mum, Emma, reading level, level. A sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always 
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# The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 12

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Emma's mum trusted her to tick her own reading log, and Emma ticked days she hadn't read; her reading level stayed still, she owned up, and breaking Mum's trust hurt more than any punishment.

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**Who acts:** mum, Emma, reading level, level, breaking · **What happens:** trust, tick, not read, stay, own up, break · **To what, where:** Emma, own reading log, days, trust

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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 (mum, Emma, reading level, level), 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:12
# text = Emma's mum trusted her to tick her own reading log, and Emma ticked days she hadn't read; her reading level stayed still, she owned up, and breaking Mum's trust hurt more than any punishment.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Emma	Emma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	tick	tick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Emma	Emma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ticked	tick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	csubj	_	_
34	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | past | Emma's mum | Emma |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tick** | to-infinitive | Emma's mum *not said here* | Mum's own reading log |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location log=Theme |
| 3 | **tick** | past | Emma |  |  |  | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **not** **read** | past · perfect | Emma | days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Topic |
| 5 | **stay** | past | Mum's reading level |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **own up** | past | level |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **break** | gerund |  | Mum's trust |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient |
| 8 | **hurt** | past | breaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **trust** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:12`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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