--- title: A girl in Ohio could not see the board well but did not tell anyone;… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Ohio could not see the board well but did not tell anyone; her marks dropped for a year until an eye test showed she just needed glasses. Who acts: girl, marks, eye test. 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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, marks, eye test), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:16 # text = A girl in Ohio could not see the board well but did not tell anyone; her marks dropped for a year until an eye test showed she just needed glasses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | could | a girl in Ohio | the board | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 3 | **drop** | past | girl's marks | | | | year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | a eye test | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **need** | past | girl | glasses | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | | 6 | **mark** | | girl | | | | | | nom mark «cognition 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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/15/) - next →: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/)