--- title: And in Kirsty's family in Aberdeen the rule was: «Tell the truth str… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics description: And in Kirsty's family in Aberdeen the rule was: «Tell the truth straight away — half the trouble.» Her brother broke a lamp, told Mum at once, and only had to help clean up. Who acts: rule, brother, Mum. 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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 (rule, brother, Mum), 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:37 # text = And in Kirsty's family in Aberdeen the rule was: «Tell the truth straight away — half the trouble.» Her brother broke a lamp, told Mum at once, and only had to help clean up. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 Kirsty Kirsty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Aberdeen Aberdeen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 straight straight ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 21 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 22 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 24 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the rule | | | Kirsty's family in Aberdeen | | away, tell *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | past | Aberdeen's brother | a lamp | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mum | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **clean up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:454-forgiving.lesson:37`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Forgiving, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/36/) - next →: [Forgiving, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/38/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/)