--- title: Example: a boy in Manchester sees a bike being stolen and says to hi… — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics description: Example: a boy in Manchester sees a bike being stolen and says to himself, «tall man, green hoodie, white trainers, rode off towards the park» — then tells a teacher straight away. Who acts: boy, bike, tall man, teacher. 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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, bike, tall man, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:4 # text = Example: a boy in Manchester sees a bike being stolen and says to himself, «tall man, green hoodie, white trainers, rode off towards the park» — then tells a teacher straight away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 018-remembering-details.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:dep 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hoodie hoodie NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 27 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 towards towards ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 — - PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 35 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 straight straight ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **see** | present | a boy in Manchester | a bike | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **steal** | gerund · passive | a bike *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | | boy | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 4 | **ride off** *in a quote* | past | tall man and green hoodie and white trainers *not said here* | | | the park | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards park=Trajectory | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a teacher | | | | then | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:018-remembering-details.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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: [Remembering details, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/3/) - next →: [Remembering details, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/)