--- title: She refused all fruit for a week and cried at night; Mum found out w… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: She refused all fruit for a week and cried at night; Mum found out why and Sam had to explain the truth and felt mean. Who acts: Amelia, Mum, Sam. 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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 (Amelia, Mum, Sam), 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:6 # text = She refused all fruit for a week and cried at night; Mum found out why and Sam had to explain the truth and felt mean. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | Amelia | all fruit | | | week | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Amelia *not said here* | | | | night | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find out** | past | Mum | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | Sam | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | | 6 | **feel** | past | Sam *not said here* | | | | | mean *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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: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): 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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