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title: A boy in Leeds went to a friend's house and they went off to the riv… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds went to a friend's house and they went off to the river without telling the parent at home; nobody knew where they were until a neighbour spotted them. Who acts: boy, pyjamas, nobody, neighbour. A sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday cours
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# Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 18

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A boy in Leeds went to a friend's house and they went off to the river without telling the parent at home; nobody knew where they were until a neighbour spotted them.

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**Who acts:** boy, pyjamas, nobody, neighbour · **What happens:** go, go off, tell, know, be, spot · **To what, where:** house, parent, home, pyjamas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, pyjamas, nobody, neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:18
# text = A boy in Leeds went to a friend's house and they went off to the river without telling the parent at home; nobody knew where they were until a neighbour spotted them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.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 ×3, 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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
26	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl
33	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a boy in Leeds |  |  | a friend's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go off** | past | pyjamas *= pyjama* |  |  |  |  | to the river | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | pyjamas *= pyjama* *not said here* |  | the parent | home |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 4 | **know** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past | pyjamas *= pyjama* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spot** | past | a neighbour | pyjamas *= pyjama* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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.

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**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:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:18`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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