--- title: A boy in London tells his friend in Chicago that he loves football,… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in London tells his friend in Chicago that he loves football, and the friend imagines helmets and touchdowns, until they work out the boy means soccer. Who acts: boy, friend, helmet. 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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, friend, helmet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson:4 # text = A boy in London tells his friend in Chicago that he loves football, and the friend imagines helmets and touchdowns, until they work out the boy means soccer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Chicago Chicago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 13 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 imagines imagine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 touchdowns touchdown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 soccer soccer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a boy in London | | boy's friend | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **love** | present | boy | football | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer football=Stimulus | | 3 | **imagine** | present | the friend | helmets and touchdowns | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot helmet=Theme | | 4 | **work out** | present | helmet | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | the boy | soccer | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soccer=Topic | 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:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Soccer, American football and baseball, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/3/) - next →: [Soccer, American football and baseball, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/)