--- title: A boy in Brisbane hears his toddler sister go quiet in the next room… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Brisbane hears his toddler sister go quiet in the next room; he checks and finds her opening the remote control, and takes the battery away. Who acts: boy, toddler sister. 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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, toddler sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:4 # text = A boy in Brisbane hears his toddler sister go quiet in the next room; he checks and finds her opening the remote control, and takes the battery away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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 Brisbane Brisbane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 opening open VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | a boy in Brisbane | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | boy's toddler sister | | | the next room | | quiet *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location | | 3 | **check** | present | boy | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **open** | gerund | boy *not said here* | the remote control | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location control=Theme | | 6 | **take away** | present | boy *not said here* | the battery | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme | 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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. 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