--- title: A woman crying at a station told Ruby she'd lost her purse; Ruby gav… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: A woman crying at a station told Ruby she'd lost her purse; Ruby gave her lunch money, and the next week the woman was there with the same story. Who acts: woman, Ruby. 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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 (woman, Ruby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:25 # text = A woman crying at a station told Ruby she'd lost her purse; Ruby gave her lunch money, and the next week the woman was there with the same story. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 446-a-strangers-story.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin 11 lost lost VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a woman *not said here* | | | a station | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at station=Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a woman | | Ruby | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **lost** | past · perfect | woman | woman's purse | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | past | Ruby | lunch money | woman | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | the woman | | | | week | with the same story; there *property* | tree rules | 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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:25`. **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): R8-pos-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: [A stranger's story, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/24/) - next →: [A stranger's story, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/)