--- title: Years later she found out it had died, and she was upset — not about… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Years later she found out it had died, and she was upset — not about the dog then, but about being told a story. Who acts: dog, farm. 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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 (dog, farm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:27 # text = Years later she found out it had died, and she was upset — not about the dog then, but about being told a story. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 about about SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find out** | past | dog | | | | | late *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **die** | past · perfect | farm | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | past | dog | | | | then | about the dog; upset *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | dog *not said here* | a story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: story=Recipient | 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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:27`. **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): 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. 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