--- title: Mum was cross about the note, but sad he hadn't told her he was scar… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics description: Mum was cross about the note, but sad he hadn't told her he was scared — and the teacher let him start in the shallow end. Who acts: Mum, teacher, Ollie. 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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 (Mum, teacher, Ollie), 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:16 # text = Mum was cross about the note, but sad he hadn't told her he was scared — and the teacher let him start in the shallow end. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 9 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 18 — - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Mum | | | | | about the note; cross *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | teacher | | Mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | past | teacher | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | past | the teacher | Ollie | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **start** | infinitive | Ollie *not said here* | | | | in the shallow end | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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. 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