--- title: A boy in Yorkshire took a short cut through a wood without looking a… — Finding your way with landmarks · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Yorkshire took a short cut through a wood without looking at where he was going; he got lost and wandered for hours before a search team found him cold and frightened. Who acts: boy, search team. 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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, search team), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:016-landmarks.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Yorkshire took a short cut through a wood without looking at where he was going; he got lost and wandered for hours before a search team found him cold and frightened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 016-landmarks.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): R8-pos-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 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl:relcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 . . 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 | **take** | past | a boy in Yorkshire | a short cut | | a wood | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | a boy in Yorkshire *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at where=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past · progressive | boy | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past · passive | | boy | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **wander** | past | | | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **find** | past | a search team | boy | | | | cold *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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:016-landmarks.lesson:5`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Finding your way with landmarks, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/4/) - next →: [Finding your way with landmarks, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/)