--- title: And Grace's friend said «I didn't eat your sweets, I swear on my mum… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics description: And Grace's friend said «I didn't eat your sweets, I swear on my mum's life, I'd never, honestly, I promise» — then Grace found the wrapper in her bag. Who acts: friend, Grace. A sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) / 27 # Stories that change, sentence 27 And Grace's friend said «I didn't eat your sweets, I swear on my mum's life, I'd never, honestly, I promise» — then Grace found the wrapper in her bag. **Who acts:** friend, Grace · **What happens:** say, not eat, swear, not promise, find · **To what, where:** sweets, life, wrapper, bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (friend, Grace), 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:27 # text = And Grace's friend said «I didn't eat your sweets, I swear on my mum's life, I'd never, honestly, I promise» — then Grace found the wrapper in her bag. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 23 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 31 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 33 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 wrapper wrapper NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 40 . . 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 | Grace's friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Grace's friend *= friend* | your sweets | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient | | 3 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | Grace's friend *= friend* | | | my mum's life | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | would | Grace's friend *= friend* | | | | | honestly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **find** | past | Grace | the wrapper | | Grace's bag | then | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrapper=Topic | 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:27`. **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. **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, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/26/) - next →: [Stories that change, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)