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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 (teacher, grandma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:17 # text = The teacher has a quiet word with Harper's mum, and Mia's grandma takes her to the cinema «for a party of two». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Harper Harper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cinema cinema NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the teacher | a quiet word | | | | with Harper's mum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | Mia's grandma | Harper | | the cinema | | for a party of two | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to cinema=Destination | 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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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. 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