--- title: «You used my kindness,» said the teacher, and Oisin felt like an eej… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics description: «You used my kindness,» said the teacher, and Oisin felt like an eejit (Irish for a fool) for a month. Who acts: You, teacher, Oisin. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [When the story falls apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/) / 12 # When the story falls apart, sentence 12 «You used my kindness,» said the teacher, and Oisin felt like an eejit (Irish for a fool) for a month. **Who acts:** You, teacher, Oisin · **What happens:** use, say, feel · **To what, where:** kindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (You, teacher, Oisin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:12 # text = «You used my kindness,» said the teacher, and Oisin felt like an eejit (Irish for a fool) for a month. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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 ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Oisin Oisin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** *in a quote* | past | You | my kindness | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | past | Oisin | | | | month | like a eejit | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like eejit=Theme | 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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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): 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/). - ← previous: [When the story falls apart, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/11/) - next →: [When the story falls apart, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/)