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title: My God!)" was written by a British admiral, Lord Fisher, in a letter… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics
description: My God!)" was written by a British admiral, Lord Fisher, in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917, one of the earliest known written uses. Who acts: British admiral. A sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 5

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My God!)" was written by a British admiral, Lord Fisher, in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917, one of the earliest known written uses.

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**Who acts:** British admiral · **What happens:** write, know · **To what, where:** God, letter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language 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 (British admiral), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:5
# text = My God!)" was written by a British admiral, Lord Fisher, in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917, one of the earliest known written uses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Winston	Winston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Churchill	Churchill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	uses	use	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **write** *in a quote* | past · passive | a British admiral | My God |  | a letter to Winston in 1917 |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in letter=Destination |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **write** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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): 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/).

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