--- title: Older people often feel lonely, and a short regular phone call can m… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Older people often feel lonely, and a short regular phone call can mean a lot to them; it is never too late to start calling again. Who acts: Older people, short regular phone call. 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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 (Older people, short regular phone call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:10 # text = Older people often feel lonely, and a short regular phone call can mean a lot to them; it is never too late to start calling again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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 ×2 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl 27 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Older people | | | | | lonely, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **mean** | can | a short regular phone call | a lot | people | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme to they=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **start** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **call** | gerund | | | | | again | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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