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title: Aisha forgave the friend who pretended she'd paid back £5 — and aske… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Aisha forgave the friend who pretended she'd paid back £5 — and asked her to pay it back. Who acts: Aisha, friend. 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 9

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Aisha forgave the friend who pretended she'd paid back £5 — and asked her to pay it back.

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**Who acts:** Aisha, friend · **What happens:** forgive, pretend, pay back, ask · **To what, where:** friend, 5, Aisha, secret

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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 (Aisha, friend), 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:9
# text = Aisha forgave the friend who pretended she'd paid back £5 — and asked her to pay it back.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **forgive** | past | Aisha | the friend |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | past | the friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay back** | past · perfect | Aisha | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Asset |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Aisha *not said here* |  | Aisha |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **pay back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Aisha *not said here* | secret |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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: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): 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/).

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