--- title: Ask me anything.» It took weeks before Dayo stopped being angry. — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: Ask me anything.» It took weeks before Dayo stopped being angry. Who acts: you, Dayo. A sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/) / 42 # Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 42 Ask me anything.» It took weeks before Dayo stopped being angry. **Who acts:** you, Dayo · **What happens:** ask, take, stop, be · **To what, where:** anything, me, criminal · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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 (you, Dayo), 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:42 # text = Ask me anything.» It took weeks before Dayo stopped being angry. # 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): no change 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 4 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 6 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 expl _ _ 7 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 Dayo Dayo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 13 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | anything | me | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | past | | criminal | | | week | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | past | Dayo | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | Dayo *not said here* | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | 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:42`. **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): no change. **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: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/40/) - next →: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/43/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/)