--- title: A boy in Leeds was rude to a new neighbour's child for being from an… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds was rude to a new neighbour's child for being from another country; the families fell out, and he lost a friend he later wished he had. Who acts: boy, families, family. 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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, families, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:16 # text = A boy in Leeds was rude to a new neighbour's child for being from another country; the families fell out, and he lost a friend he later wished he had. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 123-neighbours-and-new-people.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is** | past | a boy in Leeds | | | | | to a new neighbour's child; rude *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | another country | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall out** | past | the families | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past | family | a friend | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality | | 5 | **wish** | past | family | a friend *not said here* | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | family | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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 neighbours and new people, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/15/) - next →: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/)