--- title: Ollie's dad drives a lorry and thinks he can't help, but listening,… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics description: Ollie's dad drives a lorry and thinks he can't help, but listening, asking «What happened? Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading for pleasure and the reading b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/) / 11 # Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 11 Ollie's dad drives a lorry and thinks he can't help, but listening, asking «What happened? **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** drive, think, not help, listen, ask, happen · **To what, where:** lorry · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english 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 (dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:11 # text = Ollie's dad drives a lorry and thinks he can't help, but listening, asking «What happened? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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): no change 1 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ _ 20 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 ? ? 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 | **drive** | present | Ollie's dad | a lorry | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Ollie's dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **help** | can | dad | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** | gerund | Ollie's dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Ollie's dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **happen** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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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