--- title: A boy in a museum in London climbed onto a statue's base for a photo… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in a museum in London climbed onto a statue's base for a photo; he slipped, cracked his head on the marble floor and needed stitches. Who acts: boy. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:18 # text = A boy in a museum in London climbed onto a statue's base for a photo; he slipped, cracked his head on the marble floor and needed stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 museum museum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 onto onto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **climb** | past | a boy in a museum in London | | | a statue's base | | for a photo | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto base=Trajectory | | 2 | **slip** | past | boy | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **crack** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's head | | the marble floor | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 4 | **need** | past | boy *not said here* | stitches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/17/) - next →: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/)