--- title: A boy in Colorado sees a new girl join his class; he tells her his n… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Colorado sees a new girl join his class; he tells her his name and offers to show her where the lunch room is, and her scary first day becomes much easier. Who acts: boy, new girl, lunch room, scary first day. 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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, new girl, lunch room, scary first day), 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:4 # text = A boy in Colorado sees a new girl join his class; he tells her his name and offers to show her where the lunch room is, and her scary first day becomes much easier. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 19 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 35 much much ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . 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 | **see** | present | a boy in Colorado | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **join** | infinitive | a new girl | boy's class | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | boy | boy's name | girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Topic | | 4 | **offer** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | the lunch room | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **become** | present | girl's scary first day | | | | | easy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **name** | | boy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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 neighbours and new people, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/3/) - next →: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/)