--- title: A boy in Montana jumped across a fast river on wet stones; he slippe… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Montana jumped across a fast river on wet stones; he slipped, the current pulled him under and his dad only just reached him. Who acts: boy, current, dad. 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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, current, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:20 # text = A boy in Montana jumped across a fast river on wet stones; he slipped, the current pulled him under and his dad only just reached him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 231-campfires-and-rivers.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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 Montana Montana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 under under ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **jump** | past | a boy in Montana | | | a fast river | | on wet stones | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory | | 2 | **slip** | past | boy | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **pull under** | past | the current | boy | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 4 | **reach** | past | boy's dad | boy | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 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:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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: [Campfires, cold nights and rivers, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/19/) - next →: [Campfires, cold nights and rivers, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/)