--- title: For example, a boy in Ohio who feeds the family cat every morning wi… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a boy in Ohio who feeds the family cat every morning without being asked shows he can be trusted with bigger things. Who acts: boy. 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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), 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:3 # text = For example, a boy in Ohio who feeds the family cat every morning without being asked shows he can be trusted with bigger things. # 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 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 without without SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 18 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | a boy in Ohio | | the family cat | | morning | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund · passive | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | | 3 | **show** | present | a boy in Ohio | | | | | for example | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **trust** | can · passive | | boy | | | | with bigger things | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with thing=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:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:3`. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/2/) - next →: [Responsibility, independence and curio…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/)