--- title: A boy in Ontario went to a friend's house without telling his mum; w… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ontario went to a friend's house without telling his mum; when he was not home by dark she called the police, who searched the streets for him. Who acts: boy, house, family, police. 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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, house, family, police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Ontario went to a friend's house without telling his mum; when he was not home by dark she called the police, who searched the streets for him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ontario Ontario PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 home home ADV RB _ 24 advcl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **go** | past | a boy in Ontario | | | a friend's house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a friend's house *not said here* | | boy's mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | boy | | | | | by dark; home *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | past | family | the police | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | | 5 | **search** | past | the police | the streets | | | | for boy | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent street=Location for he=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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:18`. **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. 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