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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 (Two brothers, one, corner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:24 # text = Two brothers in New Zealand fought over a board game; one threw the board, its corner caught the other above the eye, and he needed stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 compound _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 above above ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **fight** | past | Two brothers in New Zealand | | | | | over a board game | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over game=Theme | | 2 | **throw** | past | one | the board | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme | | 3 | **catch** | past | board's corner | the other | | the eye | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 4 | **need** | past | corner | 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:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:24`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Sharing toys and playing board games f…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/22/) - next →: [Sharing toys and playing board games f…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/)