--- title: In Leeds, Juno tells her teacher, «Mum's busy,» about parents' eveni… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: In Leeds, Juno tells her teacher, «Mum's busy,» about parents' evening, though she knows Mum just didn't want to come; she can tell her teacher how she feels. Who acts: Juno, 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 (Juno, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:21 # text = In Leeds, Juno tells her teacher, «Mum's busy,» about parents' evening, though she knows Mum just didn't want to come; she can tell her teacher how she feels. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Juno Juno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 ' 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 23 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 iobj _ _ 36 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advcl 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Juno | | Juno's teacher | Leeds | evening | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mum | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | Juno | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Mum | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Juno | | Juno's teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **feel** | present | Juno | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:21`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/20/) - next →: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/)