--- title: The sign wasn't there to tell Ava something; it was there to hurry h… — «Only one left!»: shops and adverts · tree and pragmatics description: The sign wasn't there to tell Ava something; it was there to hurry her so she would buy before she thought. Who acts: sign, «, Ava. 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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 (sign, «, Ava), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:5 # text = The sign wasn't there to tell Ava something; it was there to hurry her so she would buy before she thought. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|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 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 hurry hurry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | the sign | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the sign *not said here* | something | Ava | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ava=Recipient something=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | « | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hurry** | to-infinitive | « *not said here* | Ava | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent | | 5 | **buy** | would | Ava | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ava | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:5`. **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. **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: [«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/4/) - next →: [«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/)