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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 (harvest, Dad, girl, anybody), 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:29 # text = «It's the weather, girl, not anybody's fault,» says Dad, and she makes everyone homemade cards. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 15 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:iobj 22 homemade homemade ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | harvest | the weather | | | | girl *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | girl | homemade cards | everyone | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Beneficiary card=Product | | 4 | **fault** *in a quote* | | anybody | | | | | | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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:29`. **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 ×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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