--- title: Tiny clues help too: Grace said the crisp packet under her bed was «… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny clues help too: Grace said the crisp packet under her bed was «from ages ago», but the best-before date was next year and Mum had bought those crisps on Tuesday. Who acts: Tiny clues, Grace, crisp packet, best date. 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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 (Tiny clues, Grace, crisp packet, best date), 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:5 # text = Tiny clues help too: Grace said the crisp packet under her bed was «from ages ago», but the best-before date was next year and Mum had bought those crisps on Tuesday. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 crisp crisp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 packet packet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 ccomp _ _ 18 ago ago ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 23 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 28 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 34 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 crisps crisp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod 38 . . 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 | **help** | present | Tiny clues | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grace | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the crisp packet under Grace's bed | | | | from ages | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | past | the best date | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **buy** | past · perfect | Mum | that crisps | | | tuesday | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=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:5`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [When the story falls apart, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/4/) - next →: [When the story falls apart, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/)