--- title: A girl lost at a fair in Texas kept walking and searching for her mu… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics description: A girl lost at a fair in Texas kept walking and searching for her mum; she ended up far from where she started, and it took much longer for her family to find her. Who acts: girl, 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 (girl, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:6 # text = A girl lost at a fair in Texas kept walking and searching for her mum; she ended up far from where she started, and it took much longer for her family to find her. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 017-if-you-are-lost.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 9 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 searching search VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 expl _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis 29 much much ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 csubj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | a girl *not said here* | | a fair in Texas | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at fair=Eventuality | | 2 | **keep** | past | a girl | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **search** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | | | | | for girl's mum | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for mum=Theme | | 5 | **end up** | past | girl | | | | | far *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **start** | past | girl | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **take** | past | girl *not said here* | fair | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **find** | to-infinitive | girl's family | girl | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:6`. **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 ×5, 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: [What to do if you are lost, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/5/) - next →: [What to do if you are lost, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/)