--- title: A girl in Texas ignored her friends when they said hi because she wa… — Greeting friends and relatives · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas ignored her friends when they said hi because she was in a bad mood; by the end of the week they had stopped asking her to play. Who acts: girl, visits. 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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, visits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:17 # text = A girl in Texas ignored her friends when they said hi because she was in a bad mood; by the end of the week they had stopped asking her to play. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ignored ignore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 hi hi INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 29 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 xcomp _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 . . 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 | **ignore** | past | a girl in Texas | girl's friends | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | visits *= visit* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | girl | | | a bad mood | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | past · perfect | visits *= visit* | | | | by the end of the week | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | visits *= visit* *not said here* | | girl | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | visits *= visit* *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:122-greeting-friends-and-relatives.lesson:17`. **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: [Greeting friends and relatives, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/122-greeting-friends-and-relatives/16/) - next →: [Greeting friends and relatives, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/122-greeting-friends-and-relatives/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/122-greeting-friends-and-relatives/)