--- title: Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were split… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics description: Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were splitting up. Who acts: Noah, mate, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/9/) [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/) / [Too many details, too few](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/) / 9 # Too many details, too few, sentence 9 Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were splitting up. **Who acts:** Noah, mate, parents · **What happens:** let, go, tell, split up · **To what, where:** mate, Noah · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (Noah, mate, parents), 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:9 # text = Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were splitting up. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 7 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 splitting split VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | Noah | mate | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | mate *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Noah's mate | | Noah | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **split up** | past · progressive | Noah's parents | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/5/) - next →: [Too many details, too few, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/)