--- title: Tom's little brother said the dog ate the cake — but the dog was loc… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics description: Tom's little brother said the dog ate the cake — but the dog was locked in the garden, and the brother had chocolate on his chin. Who acts: little brother, dog, brother. 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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 (little brother, dog, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:23 # text = Tom's little brother said the dog ate the cake — but the dog was locked in the garden, and the brother had chocolate on his chin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 — - PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tom's little brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** | past | the dog | the cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | | 3 | **lock** | past · passive | | the dog | | the garden | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **have** | past | the brother | chocolate | | brother's chin | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient | 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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:23`. **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/). - ← previous: [Stories that change, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/22/) - next →: [Stories that change, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)