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title: Boredom is the start of creativity: a rainy day with no screen can b… — Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Boredom is the start of creativity: a rainy day with no screen can become a den, a story or a cake. Who acts: Boredom, rainy day. A sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters, sentence 4

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Boredom is the start of creativity: a rainy day with no screen can become a den, a story or a cake.

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**Who acts:** Boredom, rainy day · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** start, den

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boredom, rainy day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.lesson:4
# text = Boredom is the start of creativity: a rainy day with no screen can become a den, a story or a cake.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.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	Boredom	boredom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	creativity	creativity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Boredom | the start |  |  |  | of creativity | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | can | a rainy day with no screen | a den and a story or a cake |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.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): 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/).

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