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title: Leo was raging («raging» means furious), then his brother gave him h… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo was raging («raging» means furious), then his brother gave him his Xbox time for a week and said sorry to Mum and Dad too. Who acts: Leo, brother. A sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Forgiving, sentence 18

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Leo was raging («raging» means furious), then his brother gave him his Xbox time for a week and said sorry to Mum and Dad too.

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**Who acts:** Leo, brother · **What happens:** rage, mean, give, say · **To what, where:** Leo, Mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (Leo, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:454-forgiving.lesson:18
# text = Leo was raging («raging» means furious), then his brother gave him his Xbox time for a week and said sorry to Mum and Dad too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 454-forgiving.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
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Xbox	Xbox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | past · progressive | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rage** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | Leo's brother |  | Leo |  | then; time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Leo's brother *not said here* |  | Mum and Dad |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mum=Recipient |

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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:454-forgiving.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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