--- title: Pat the lollipop lady says «Lovely weather for ducks, chuck!» on rai… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics description: Pat the lollipop lady says «Lovely weather for ducks, chuck!» on rainy days, for twenty years; when she retires, the whole school makes her a giant card. Who acts: Pat, whole school. 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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 (Pat, whole school), 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:22 # text = Pat the lollipop lady says «Lovely weather for ducks, chuck!» on rainy days, for twenty years; when she retires, the whole school makes her a giant card. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Pat Pat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 lollipop lollipop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 Lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 chuck chuck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 retires retire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Pat | Lovely weather | | | day; year | for ducks and chuck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weather=Topic | | 2 | **retire** | present | Pat | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | the whole school | school's giant card | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset card=Product | 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:22`. **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 ×3. **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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