--- title: «The children were famished after the long walk.» After a long walk… — Vocabulary in context · tree and pragmatics description: «The children were famished after the long walk.» After a long walk you are hungry, so famished must mean very hungry. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» 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/20-vocabulary-in-context/2/) [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/) / [Vocabulary in context](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/) / 2 # Vocabulary in context, sentence 2 «The children were famished after the long walk.» After a long walk you are hungry, so famished must mean very hungry. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** famish, be, mean · **To what, where:** children · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:2 # text = «The children were famished after the long walk.» After a long walk you are hungry, so famished must mean very hungry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 020-vocabulary-in-context.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 famished famish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 12 After after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 famished famish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **famish** *in a quote* | past · passive | | the children | | | after the long walk | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | after a long walk | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **famish** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | must | | | | | | hungry *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:020-vocabulary-in-context.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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: [Vocabulary in context, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/1/) - next →: [Vocabulary in context, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/)