--- title: A boy in Leeds believed the myth that you should put butter on a bur… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds believed the myth that you should put butter on a burn; he did, and the burn blistered badly until he cooled it with water at the doctor's. Who acts: boy, you, burn. 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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, you, burn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:14 # text = A boy in Leeds believed the myth that you should put butter on a burn; he did, and the burn blistered badly until he cooled it with water at the doctor's. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 12 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 burn burn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 burn burn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 blistered blister VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 cooled cool VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | past | a boy in Leeds | the myth | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myth=Stimulus | | 2 | **put** | should | you | butter | | a burn | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme on burn=Destination | | 3 | **blister** | past | the burn | | | | | badly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cool** | past | burn | butter | | the doctor | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | 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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/13/) - next →: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/)