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title: Girls in Leeds sent Mia a fake love note «from» a boy, then read her… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics
description: Girls in Leeds sent Mia a fake love note «from» a boy, then read her reply aloud to the class; Mia stayed off school for two days, and it hurt for ages. Who acts: Girls, Mia, reply. A sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 21

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Girls in Leeds sent Mia a fake love note «from» a boy, then read her reply aloud to the class; Mia stayed off school for two days, and it hurt for ages.

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**Who acts:** Girls, Mia, reply · **What happens:** send, read, stay, hurt, reply · **To what, where:** fake love note, Mia, reply, class

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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 (Girls, Mia, reply), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:21
# text = Girls in Leeds sent Mia a fake love note «from» a boy, then read her reply aloud to the class; Mia stayed off school for two days, and it hurt for ages.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Girls in Leeds | a fake love note | Mia |  |  | from a boy | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mia=Destination note=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | past | Girls in Leeds *not said here* | Mia's reply | the class |  | then | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reply=Topic to class=Recipient |
| 3 | **stay** | past | Mia |  |  |  | day | off school | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | reply |  |  |  | for ages |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **reply** |  | Mia |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:21`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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