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title: The judge smiles, signs the papers and says, «Congratulations.» Then… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: The judge smiles, signs the papers and says, «Congratulations.» Then he gives her a teddy from a basket. Who acts: judge. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adoption, sentence 5

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The judge smiles, signs the papers and says, «Congratulations.» Then he gives her a teddy from a basket.

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**Who acts:** judge · **What happens:** smile, sign, say, give · **To what, where:** papers, teddy, Adoption, basket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (judge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:5
# text = The judge smiles, signs the papers and says, «Congratulations.» Then he gives her a teddy from a basket.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 522-adoption.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	signs	sign	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	teddy	teddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **smile** | present | the judge |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sign** | present | the judge *not said here* | the papers |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the judge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | present | judge | a teddy | Adoption | a basket | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient teddy=Theme |

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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:522-adoption.lesson:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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

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