--- title: A girl in Vancouver was so afraid of the dentist that she hid her to… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Vancouver was so afraid of the dentist that she hid her toothache for months; by the time she told anyone the tooth had to come out. Who acts: girl, tooth. 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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, tooth), 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:19 # text = A girl in Vancouver was so afraid of the dentist that she hid her toothache for months; by the time she told anyone the tooth had to come out. # 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): 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 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 toothache toothache NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 24 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 iobj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 out out ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | a girl in Vancouver | | | | | of the dentist; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | past | girl | girl's toothache | | | month | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl | | anyone | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 4 | **have** | past | the tooth | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come out** | to-infinitive | the tooth *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:19`. **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: [Anger and fears, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/18/) - next →: [Anger and fears, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/)