--- title: A girl in Toronto counts her sewing needles back into the pincushion… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Toronto counts her sewing needles back into the pincushion: nine out, nine back, so her cat will not step on one. Who acts: girl, cat. 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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, cat), 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:4 # text = A girl in Toronto counts her sewing needles back into the pincushion: nine out, nine back, so her cat will not step on one. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 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 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 sewing sewing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 8 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pincushion pincushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **count** | present | a girl in Toronto | girl's sewing needles | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | | 2 | **not** **step** | future | girl's cat | | | | | on one | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Trajectory | 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:4`. **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. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/3/) - next →: [Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/)