--- title: A girl in Brisbane picked up a needle in the sandpit to put it in th… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Brisbane picked up a needle in the sandpit to put it in the bin; she pricked her finger and had to have blood tests and medicine for months. Who acts: girl. 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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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:22 # text = A girl in Brisbane picked up a needle in the sandpit to put it in the bin; she pricked her finger and had to have blood tests and medicine for months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Brisbane Brisbane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sandpit sandpit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pricked prick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **pick up** | past | a girl in Brisbane | a needle | | the sandpit | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic | | 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | a girl in Brisbane *not said here* | needle | | the bin | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bin=Destination | | 3 | **prick** | past | girl | girl's finger | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | | 4 | **have** | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | blood tests and medicine | | | month | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient | 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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:22`. **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. **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: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/21/) - next →: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/)