--- title: In Edinburgh, Zofia hears «the rent» and «maybe moving» through the… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: In Edinburgh, Zofia hears «the rent» and «maybe moving» through the wall and can't sleep, worrying about a new school; asking her parents straight is less scary than guessing. Who acts: Zofia, parents, asking. 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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 (Zofia, parents, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:17 # text = In Edinburgh, Zofia hears «the rent» and «maybe moving» through the wall and can't sleep, worrying about a new school; asking her parents straight is less scary than guessing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Edinburgh Edinburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Zofia Zofia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rent rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 worrying worry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 24 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:iobj 32 straight straight ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 36 than than SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | Zofia | the rent | | Edinburgh | | through the wall | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rent=Stimulus | | 2 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund | Zofia *not said here* | | | | | maybe *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **sleep** | can | Zofia *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **worry** | gerund | Zofia *not said here* | | | | | about a new school | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about school=Stimulus | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Zofia's parents | | | | | straight *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | less, scary *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **guess** | gerund | asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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