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title: Mia ran straight to her teacher, who rang Mia's mum (fine, at work)… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia ran straight to her teacher, who rang Mia's mum (fine, at work) and the police. Who acts: Mia, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A stranger's story, sentence 3

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Mia ran straight to her teacher, who rang Mia's mum (fine, at work) and the police.

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**Who acts:** Mia, teacher · **What happens:** run, ring · **To what, where:** mum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (Mia, teacher), 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:3
# text = Mia ran straight to her teacher, who rang Mia's mum (fine, at work) and the police.
# 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): no change
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Mia |  |  |  |  | to Mia's teacher *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to teacher=Result |
| 2 | **ring** | past | Mia's teacher | Mia's mum and the police |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme |

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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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:3`.

**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): no change. **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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