--- title: The first month she cried every night and barely spoke in class, so… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: The first month she cried every night and barely spoke in class, so nobody would hear the accent; by month three a girl at netball asked her round and she started to laugh again; after a year she had a bit of an Aussie twang herself. Who acts: family, nobody, girl. 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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 (family, nobody, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:3 # text = The first month she cried every night and barely spoke in class, so nobody would hear the accent; by month three a girl at netball asked her round and she started to laugh again; after a year she had a bit of an Aussie twang herself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 barely barely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 flat _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 netball netball NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 round round ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Aussie Aussie ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 48 twang twang NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 49 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 42 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:obj 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | family | | | | month; night | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | family *not said here* | | | class | | barely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hear** | would | nobody | the accent | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a girl at netball | | family | | month | round *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 5 | **start** | past | family | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | family *not said here* | | | | again | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | past | family | a bit of a Aussie twang | | | year | family *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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