--- title: Weeks later Mum found muddy jandals (flip-flops) with creek weed on… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Weeks later Mum found muddy jandals (flip-flops) with creek weed on them, and told her the creek had swept a dog away that day. Who acts: Mum, creek. 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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 (Mum, creek), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:20 # text = Weeks later Mum found muddy jandals (flip-flops) with creek weed on them, and told her the creek had swept a dog away that day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 436-covering-for-a-friend.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked 2 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 3 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 jandals jandal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 8 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 flops flop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 creek creek NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 creek creek NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 swept sweep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **find** | past | Mum | muddy jandals | | | | with creek weed on flops; late *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jandal=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mum *not said here* | | Kiri | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **sweep away** | past · perfect | the creek | a dog | | | day | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location dog=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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:20`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Covering for a friend, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/19/) - next →: [Covering for a friend, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/)