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title: A teacher moves them along, and Kieran is mortified all day. — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: A teacher moves them along, and Kieran is mortified all day. Who acts: teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 17

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A teacher moves them along, and Kieran is mortified all day.

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**Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** move, mortify · **To what, where:** ups, Kieran

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (teacher), 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:17
# text = A teacher moves them along, and Kieran is mortified all day.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | present | a teacher | ups *= up* |  |  |  | along *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **mortify** | present · passive |  | Kieran |  |  | day |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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): R2-punct-next ×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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