--- title: Bogdan in Coventry doesn't give Mum the letter about the £35 theme p… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics description: Bogdan in Coventry doesn't give Mum the letter about the £35 theme park trip, because he knows she'll worry, and he says he's ill that day. Who acts: Bogdan, mum. 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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 (Bogdan, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:14 # text = Bogdan in Coventry doesn't give Mum the letter about the £35 theme park trip, because he knows she'll worry, and he says he's ill that day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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 Bogdan Bogdan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Coventry Coventry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 iobj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:iobj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 £ £ SYM $ _ 16 compound _ _ 13 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 14 theme theme NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 worry worry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 31 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | Bogdan in Coventry | the letter | Mum | | | about the £ park trip | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient letter=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | Bogdan | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **worry** | future | mum | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bogdan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | Bogdan | | | | day | ill *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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:14`. **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. 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