--- title: A boy in Halifax squints at the board and sits closer and closer; hi… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Halifax squints at the board and sits closer and closer; his teacher notices, he has an eye test, and with new glasses the letters are sharp again. Who acts: boy, teacher, letters. 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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, teacher, letters), 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:3 # text = A boy in Halifax squints at the board and sits closer and closer; his teacher notices, he has an eye test, and with new glasses the letters are sharp again. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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 Halifax Halifax PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 squints squint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 notices notice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squint** | present | a boy in Halifax | | | | | at the board | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at board=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | a boy in Halifax *not said here* | | | | | with new glasses; close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **notice** | present | boy's teacher | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | present | boy | a eye test | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | the letters | | | | again | sharp *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/2/) - next →: [Growing, seeing and hearing, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/)