--- title: School reports use formal words: "conscientious" means careful and h… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: School reports use formal words: "conscientious" means careful and hard-working, and "contributes enthusiastically" means joins in with energy. Who acts: School reports, conscientious. 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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 (School reports, conscientious), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:15 # text = School reports use formal words: "conscientious" means careful and hard-working, and "contributes enthusiastically" means joins in with energy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 School school NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 conscientious conscientious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 contributes contribute VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 nsubj _ _ 20 enthusiastically enthusiastically ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 24 in in ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RP:_ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | School reports | formal words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | conscientious | | | | | careful *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work** | gerund | conscientious *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **contribute** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | enthusiastically *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **join in** | present | | | | | | with energy | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with energy=Co-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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:15`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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