--- title: A boy in Texas ran across the classroom holding open scissors; he tr… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas ran across the classroom holding open scissors; he tripped and the blade went into his leg, and he needed stitches. Who acts: boy, blade. 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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, blade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Texas ran across the classroom holding open scissors; he tripped and the blade went into his leg, and he needed stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.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, 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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 10 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tripped trip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **run** | past | a boy in Texas | | | the classroom | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across classroom=Trajectory | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* | open scissors | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme | | 3 | **trip** | past | boy | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | the blade | | | blade's leg | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into leg=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **need** | past | boy | 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:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.lesson:17`. **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, 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: [Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/16/) - next →: [Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/)