--- title: A boy in Texas let his little brother play near the pool while he lo… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas let his little brother play near the pool while he looked at his phone; his brother fell in and was pulled out by their mum just in time. Who acts: boy, little brother, brother, mum. 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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 (boy, little brother, brother, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:16 # text = A boy in Texas let his little brother play near the pool while he looked at his phone; his brother fell in and was pulled out by their mum just in time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.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 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 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | a boy in Texas | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | infinitive | boy's little brother | | | the pool | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | past | brother | | | | | at boy's phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme | | 4 | **fall in** | past | boy's brother | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pull out** | past · passive | questions's mum | | | | time | | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Responsibility, independence and curio…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/15/) - next →: [Responsibility, independence and curio…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/)