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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 (I, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:18 # text = The story of young George Washington, later the first President of the USA, chopping down his father's cherry tree and saying "I cannot tell a lie" first appeared in Mason Locke Weems's biography (1806 edition) and is almost certainly invented. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 chopping chop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 appos _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 advmod _ _ 34 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Mason Mason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 Locke Locke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Weems Weems PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:conj 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 biography biography NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:conj 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 42 1806 1806 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 edition edition NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 47 almost almost ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chop down** | gerund | | story's father's cherry tree | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | I | a lie | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | | 4 | **appear** | participle | the story of young George | biography | | Mason | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mason=Location | | 5 | **invent** | present · passive | the story of young George *not said here* | | | | | certainly *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» | 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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:18`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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