--- title: For example, a girl in Texas finds a marble on the rug where her bab… — Sharp things, small objects and little ones · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a girl in Texas finds a marble on the rug where her baby brother crawls; she picks it up and puts it high on a shelf before he can reach it. Who acts: girl, baby brother, brother. 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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 (girl, baby brother, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:3 # text = For example, a girl in Texas finds a marble on the rug where her baby brother crawls; she picks it up and puts it high on a shelf before he can reach it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rug rug NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | a girl in Texas | a marble | | the rug | | for example | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent marble=Theme for example=Beneficiary | | 2 | **crawl** | present | girl's baby brother | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pick up** | present | girl | marble | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **put** | present | girl *not said here* | marble | | a shelf | | high *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Destination | | 5 | **reach** | can | brother | marble | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/2/) - next →: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/)