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title: Months later, Theo said hi in the corridor; he felt lighter, though… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Months later, Theo said hi in the corridor; he felt lighter, though they never became close again. Who acts: Theo, friends. 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 35

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Months later, Theo said hi in the corridor; he felt lighter, though they never became close again.

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**Who acts:** Theo, friends · **What happens:** say, feel, not become · **To what, where:** corridor · **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 (Theo, friends), 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:35
# text = Months later, Theo said hi in the corridor; he felt lighter, though they never became close again.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
2	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Theo |  |  | the corridor |  | late *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in corridor=Manner |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Theo |  |  |  |  | light *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **become** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | again | close *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:35`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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