--- title: A girl in England called Ruby built a den roof from old planks and s… — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in England called Ruby built a den roof from old planks and stood on it; it gave way, she fell two metres and broke her wrist. Who acts: girl, roof. 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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, roof), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:27 # text = A girl in England called Ruby built a den roof from old planks and stood on it; it gave way, she fell two metres and broke her wrist. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 244-building-and-making-things.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 6 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 planks plank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wrist wrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | a girl in England *not said here* | | Ruby | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient | | 2 | **build** | past | a girl in England | a den roof | | old planks | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent roof=Product from plank=Material | | 3 | **stand** | past | a girl in England *not said here* | | | roof | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | | 4 | **give** | past | roof | way | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | girl | two metres | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **break** | past | girl *not said here* | girl's wrist | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=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. 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