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title: A boy in Texas jumped off a high garage roof into a pile of leaves,… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Texas jumped off a high garage roof into a pile of leaves, thinking they were soft; the leaves were thin, he hit the hard ground and broke both ankles. Who acts: boy, knees, leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 5

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A boy in Texas jumped off a high garage roof into a pile of leaves, thinking they were soft; the leaves were thin, he hit the hard ground and broke both ankles.

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**Who acts:** boy, knees, leaves · **What happens:** jump off, think, be, hit, break · **To what, where:** high garage roof, pile, hard ground, ankles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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, knees, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:5
# text = A boy in Texas jumped off a high garage roof into a pile of leaves, thinking they were soft; the leaves were thin, he hit the hard ground and broke both ankles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	PART	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	garage	garage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump off** | past | a boy in Texas | a high garage roof |  |  |  | into a pile of leaves *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pile=Result |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | knees *= knee* |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the leaves |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | past | boy | the hard ground |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **break** | past | boy *not said here* | both ankles |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ankle=Patient |

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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.

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**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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:5`.

**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): 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/).

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