--- title: A boy can read every word of a story and still not know what happene… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics description: A boy can read every word of a story and still not know what happened, so grown-ups ask «Who was in it? Who acts: boy, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/13/) [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/) / [Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/) / 13 # Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 13 A boy can read every word of a story and still not know what happened, so grown-ups ask «Who was in it? **Who acts:** boy, grown ups · **What happens:** read, not know, happen, grow, ask, be · **To what, where:** word, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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 (boy, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:13 # text = A boy can read every word of a story and still not know what happened, so grown-ups ask «Who was in it? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 nsubj _ _ 15 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 23 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | can | a boy | every word of a story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **not** **know** | infinitive | a boy *not said here* | | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | grown ups | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | word | | | tree rules | | 7 | **word** | | | a story | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:13`. **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 ×3. **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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