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title: In Dublin, Hester can't wake her da in the afternoon to sign a schoo… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Dublin, Hester can't wake her da in the afternoon to sign a school form, so she writes his name herself. Who acts: Hester, Dublin. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 16

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In Dublin, Hester can't wake her da in the afternoon to sign a school form, so she writes his name herself.

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**Who acts:** Hester, Dublin · **What happens:** not wake, sign, write, name · **To what, where:** da, Dublin, school form, name

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hester, Dublin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:16
# text = In Dublin, Hester can't wake her da in the afternoon to sign a school form, so she writes his name herself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Hester	Hester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sign	sign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wake** | can | Hester | Hester's da |  | Dublin | afternoon |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent da=Patient |
| 2 | **sign** | to-infinitive | Hester *not said here* | a school form |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Destination |
| 3 | **write** | present | Hester | Dublin's name |  |  |  | Hester *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | Dublin |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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