--- title: On Anzac Day in Wellington a boy hears the call for a minute's silen… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics description: On Anzac Day in Wellington a boy hears the call for a minute's silence; he stops talking, stands completely still, and remembers the people who died in wars. Who acts: boy, people, minute. 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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, people, minute), 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:4 # text = On Anzac Day in Wellington a boy hears the call for a minute's silence; he stops talking, stands completely still, and remembers the people who died in wars. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Anzac anzac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Wellington Wellington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 19 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 completely completely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | a boy | the call | | Anzac | | for a minute's silence | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | | 2 | **stop** | present | boy | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stand** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remember** | present | a boy *not said here* | the people | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 6 | **die** | past | the people | | | | | in wars | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute | | 7 | **silence** | | a minute | | | | | | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/3/) - next →: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/)