--- title: The next week Lucy told her she was scared of sleepovers, and Mia sa… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics description: The next week Lucy told her she was scared of sleepovers, and Mia said «Come for tea instead, then go home.» Not every vague answer needs cracking open; sometimes leaving space lets people tell you later. Who acts: Lucy, Mia, vague answer, leaving. 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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 (Lucy, Mia, vague answer, leaving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:12 # text = The next week Lucy told her she was scared of sleepovers, and Mia said «Come for tea instead, then go home.» Not every vague answer needs cracking open; sometimes leaving space lets people tell you later. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 450-too-many-details-too-few.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 Lucy Lucy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sleepovers sleepover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 instead instead ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 24 home home ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 27 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 29 vague vague ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 cracking crack VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 36 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj 37 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 43 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lucy | | Mia | | week | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | Mia | | | | | of sleepovers; scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mia | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | for tea; instead *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | then | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **need** | present | every vague answer | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **crack** *not said to happen* | gerund | every vague answer *not said here* | | | | | open *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **leave** | gerund | | space | | | | sometimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | | 9 | **let** | present | leaving | people | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | you | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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: [Too many details, too few, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/11/) - next →: [Too many details, too few, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/)