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title: Arjun in Mumbai wrote his own permission slip for a trip his parents… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics
description: Arjun in Mumbai wrote his own permission slip for a trip his parents had said no to; on the morning of the trip the teacher phoned home about pick-up time, and he was taken off the bus in front of everyone. Who acts: Arjun, parents, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it 
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# The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 7

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Arjun in Mumbai wrote his own permission slip for a trip his parents had said no to; on the morning of the trip the teacher phoned home about pick-up time, and he was taken off the bus in front of everyone.

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**Who acts:** Arjun, parents, teacher · **What happens:** write, say, phone, take off, slip · **To what, where:** own permission slip, no, teacher, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Arjun, parents, teacher), 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:7
# text = Arjun in Mumbai wrote his own permission slip for a trip his parents had said no to; on the morning of the trip the teacher phoned home about pick-up time, and he was taken off the bus in front of everyone.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mumbai	Mumbai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	phoned	phone	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
32	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:compound
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
39	off	off	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **write** | past | Arjun in Mumbai | Arjun's own permission slip |  |  |  | for a trip | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent slip=Result for trip=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Arjun's parents | no |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 3 | **phone** | past | the teacher |  |  |  | morning; time | home *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take off** | past · passive |  | teacher |  | front of everyone |  | off the bus | tree rules |
| 5 | **slip** |  | Arjun |  |  |  |  |  | nom slip «act 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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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