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description: A girl in Texas snatched a toy from a three-year-old, who toppled backwards off a step and banged her head so hard she was sick and had to see a doctor. Who acts: girl, Texas. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 25

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A girl in Texas snatched a toy from a three-year-old, who toppled backwards off a step and banged her head so hard she was sick and had to see a doctor.

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**Who acts:** girl, Texas · **What happens:** snatch, topple, bang, be, have, see · **To what, where:** toy, year old, head, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Texas), 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:25
# text = A girl in Texas snatched a toy from a three-year-old, who toppled backwards off a step and banged her head so hard she was sick and had to see a doctor.
# 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): no change
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	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	toppled	topple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	banged	bang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | past | a girl in Texas | a toy |  | a year old |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent toy=Theme from old=Source |
| 2 | **topple** | past |  |  |  |  |  | off a step; backwards *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bang** | past |  | Texas's head |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Texas |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:25`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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