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title: Zoe said she'd walked straight home — then her brother said «you wer… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoe said she'd walked straight home — then her brother said «you were at the shop», and the shopkeeper waved: «Hiya Zoe, back for more?» Zoe laughed and owned up. Who acts: Zoe, brother, you, shopkeeper. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 6

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Zoe said she'd walked straight home — then her brother said «you were at the shop», and the shopkeeper waved: «Hiya Zoe, back for more?» Zoe laughed and owned up.

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**Who acts:** Zoe, brother, you, shopkeeper · **What happens:** say, walk, be, wave, laugh, own up · **To what, where:** shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Zoe, brother, you, shopkeeper), 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:6
# text = Zoe said she'd walked straight home — then her brother said «you were at the shop», and the shopkeeper waved: «Hiya Zoe, back for more?» Zoe laughed and owned up.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Hiya	Hiya	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	28	discourse	_	_
28	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	obl	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zoe |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | past · perfect | Zoe |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zoe's brother |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  | the shop |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wave** | past | the shopkeeper |  |  |  |  | Zoe *vocative* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **laugh** | past | Zoe |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **own up** | past | Zoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:6`.

**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): 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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