--- title: A boy in Texas ran backwards in a game of tag and hit a metal pole;… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas ran backwards in a game of tag and hit a metal pole; he got a concussion (a brain injury from a hard knock to the head) and was sick and dizzy for days. Who acts: boy. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Texas ran backwards in a game of tag and hit a metal pole; he got a concussion (a brain injury from a hard knock to the head) and was sick and dizzy for days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 247-running-games-and-playground.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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 backwards backward ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 tag tag NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 concussion concussion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc 38 dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **run** | past | a boy in Texas | | | a game of tag | | backward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Trajectory | | 2 | **hit** | past | a boy in Texas *not said here* | a metal pole | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pole=Co-Theme | | 3 | **get** | past | boy | a concussion | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer concussion=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | day | sick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | boy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:18`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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: [Running games and the playground, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/17/) - next →: [Running games and the playground, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/)