--- title: On Christmas Day Ellie's parents had a row and Mum cried in the kitc… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics description: On Christmas Day Ellie's parents had a row and Mum cried in the kitchen; Ellie sat with her presents thinking, "Christmas is ruined. Who acts: parents, Ellie. A sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the reflection course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/14-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes/1/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/14-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes/) / 1 # When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 1 On Christmas Day Ellie's parents had a row and Mum cried in the kitchen; Ellie sat with her presents thinking, "Christmas is ruined. **Who acts:** parents, Ellie · **What happens:** have, cry, sit, think, ruin · **To what, where:** row, Christmas, kitchen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the reflection 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 (parents, Ellie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:1 # text = On Christmas Day Ellie's parents had a row and Mum cried in the kitchen; Ellie sat with her presents thinking, "Christmas is ruined. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 17 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 ruined ruin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Ellie's parents | a row and Mum | | Christmas | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Ellie's parents *not said here* | | | the kitchen | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location | | 3 | **sit** | past | Ellie | | | | | with Christmas's presents | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Ellie *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **ruin** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Christmas | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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