--- title: Picture a café in Dublin: Mum holds the menu at arm's length and lau… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a café in Dublin: Mum holds the menu at arm's length and laughs, "I can't read this without my glasses," while Dad groans getting up from his chair, "It's my bad back again." Who acts: you, Mum, I, Dad. 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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 (you, Mum, I, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:3 # text = Picture a café in Dublin: Mum holds the menu at arm's length and laughs, "I can't read this without my glasses," while Dad groans getting up from his chair, "It's my bad back again." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 café café NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 menu menu NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obj _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 groans groan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 32 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 33 up up ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 44 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a café | | Dublin | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent café=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | present | Mum | the menu | | arm's length | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent menu=Theme at length=Location | | 3 | **laugh** | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **read** *in a quote* | can | I | this | | | | without my glasses | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | | 5 | **groan** | present | Dad | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get up** | gerund | Dad *not said here* | | | Dad's chair | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chair=Destination | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | menu | my bad back | | | again | | 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/2/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)