--- title: A boy in Birmingham lost his temper and threw a heavy toy at his bro… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Birmingham lost his temper and threw a heavy toy at his brother; it hit him by the eye and he needed stitches, and the boy felt terrible for weeks. Who acts: boy, toy. 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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, toy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Birmingham lost his temper and threw a heavy toy at his brother; it hit him by the eye and he needed stitches, and the boy felt terrible for weeks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 212-anger-and-fears.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): R7-rel-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 Birmingham Birmingham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 32 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **lose** | past | a boy in Birmingham | boy's temper | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | | 2 | **throw** | past | a boy in Birmingham *not said here* | a heavy toy | | | | at boy's brother | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent toy=Theme at brother=Destination | | 3 | **hit** | past | toy | boy | | | | by the eye | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme by eye=Destination | | 4 | **need** | past | boy | stitches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | past | the boy | | | | week | terrible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **temper** | | boy | | | | | | nom temper «feeling 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. 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