--- title: The socks did it." When they lose in the same socks, he finds an exc… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: The socks did it." When they lose in the same socks, he finds an excuse: "they were in the wash the day before." He remembers the hits and forgets the misses. Who acts: socks, team. 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He remembers the hits and forgets the misses. **Who acts:** socks, team · **What happens:** do, lose, find, be, remember, forget · **To what, where:** match, same socks, excuse, wash, hits, misses · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (socks, team), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:2 # text = The socks did it." When they lose in the same socks, he finds an excuse: "they were in the wash the day before." He remembers the hits and forgets the misses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 7 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 before before ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 31 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hits hit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 misses miss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the socks | match | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | present | socks *= sock* | | | the same socks | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in sock=Eventuality | | 3 | **find** *in a quote* | present | team | a excuse | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent excuse=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | socks *= sock* | | | the wash | day | | tree rules | | 5 | **remember** *in a quote* | present | team | the hits | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hit=Theme | | 6 | **forget** *in a quote* | present | team *not said here* | the misses | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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, 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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