--- title: When he catches Kieran slipping a chocolate bar into his pocket, he… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics description: When he catches Kieran slipping a chocolate bar into his pocket, he doesn't call the police: «You'll sweep my shop every Saturday for a month, and then we're square» (even). Who acts: Mr, You, we. 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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 (Mr, You, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:12 # text = When he catches Kieran slipping a chocolate bar into his pocket, he doesn't call the police: «You'll sweep my shop every Saturday for a month, and then we're square» (even). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 4 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 slipping slip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | present | Mr | Kieran | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **slip** | gerund | Mr *not said here* | a chocolate bar | | Mr's pocket | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bar=Patient | | 3 | **not** **call** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Mr | the police | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | | 4 | **sweep** *in a quote* | future | You | my shop | | | month; saturday | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | then | square *property* | tree rules | 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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:12`. **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): 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. 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