--- title: Rudeness rarely works: "Your park is trash and the swings are broke"… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: Rudeness rarely works: "Your park is trash and the swings are broke" gets ignored, but "I am writing about the broken swings in Oak Park; could you please arrange a repair?" gets read. Who acts: Rudeness, park, swings, I. 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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 (Rudeness, park, swings, I), 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:5 # text = Rudeness rarely works: "Your park is trash and the swings are broke" gets ignored, but "I am writing about the broken swings in Oak Park; could you please arrange a repair?" gets read. # 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 ×1 1 Rudeness rudeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 trash trash NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 swings swing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 broke broke ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 ignored ignore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 swings swing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Oak Oak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 please please INTJ UH _ 35 discourse _ _ 35 arrange arrange VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 repair repair NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 40 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Rudeness | | | | | rarely *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Your park | trash | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the swings | | | | | broke *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ignore** | present · passive | | trash | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **write** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I | | | | | about the broken swings in Oak | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about swing=Topic | | 6 | **break** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **arrange** *in a quote* | could | you | a repair | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repair=Product | | 8 | **read** | present · passive | Rudeness *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V» | 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: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): 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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