--- title: Then Fern hears Nan say, «Fern's the one who's always in trouble.» F… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Fern hears Nan say, «Fern's the one who's always in trouble.» Fern folds her arms: «I'm the black sheep then, am I?» A black sheep is the one who doesn't fit the family's picture. Who acts: Fern, Nan, I, black sheep. 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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 (Fern, Nan, I, black sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:1 # text = Then Fern hears Nan say, «Fern's the one who's always in trouble.» Fern folds her arms: «I'm the black sheep then, am I?» A black sheep is the one who doesn't fit the family's picture. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Fern Fern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 Fern Fern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Fern Fern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 32 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 36 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 43 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | Fern | | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Fern | the one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fold** | present | Fern | Fern's arms | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | the black sheep | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | a black sheep | the one | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **fit** | present · do-support | the one | the family's picture | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient | 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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