--- title: Tegan-Rae writes her dad letters about school; he writes back with d… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: Tegan-Rae writes her dad letters about school; he writes back with drawings of her dog. Who acts: Tegan Rae, Ellis, Rae, dog. 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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 (Tegan Rae, Ellis, Rae, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:31 # text = Tegan-Rae writes her dad letters about school; he writes back with drawings of her dog. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.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 ×1 1 Tegan Tegan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Rae Rae PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 drawings drawing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **write** | present | Tegan Rae | Rae's dad letters | | | | about school | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent letter=Recipient about school=Topic | | 2 | **write back** | present | Ellis | | | | | with drawings of Rae's dog | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **letter** | | Rae | | | | | about school | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl | | 4 | **draw** | | Rae's dog | | | | | | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=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:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:31`. **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 ×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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