--- title: Special days are often the hardest: on Grandad's birthday Ellie's fa… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Special days are often the hardest: on Grandad's birthday Ellie's family eat his favourite cake and tell stories about him, and at Christmas Lily's family set an empty chair for her mum. Who acts: Special days, family. 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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 (Special days, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:2 # text = Special days are often the hardest: on Grandad's birthday Ellie's family eat his favourite cake and tell stories about him, and at Christmas Lily's family set an empty chair for her mum. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 12 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 28 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Special days | | | | | hard, often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | Ellie's family | person's favourite cake | | Grandad's birthday | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ellie's family *not said here* | stories | | | | about person | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about he=Topic | | 4 | **set** | past | Lily's family | a empty chair | | Christmas | | for love's mum | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Theme at christmas=Destination | 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:religion-ethics:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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