--- title: A boy in New Jersey called Ben skipped breakfast every morning; one… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New Jersey called Ben skipped breakfast every morning; one day in PE he went dizzy, fainted and cut his chin on the gym floor. 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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:19 # text = A boy in New Jersey called Ben skipped breakfast every morning; one day in PE he went dizzy, fainted and cut his chin on the gym floor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Jersey Jersey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 7 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 PE pe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 fainted faint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 gym gym NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **call** | participle | | a boy in New Jersey *not said here* | Ben | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ben=Recipient | | 2 | **skip** | past | a boy in New Jersey | breakfast | | | morning | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | boy | | | PE | day | dizzy *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pe=Location | | 4 | **faint** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **cut** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's chin | | the gym floor | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chin=Product | 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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.lesson:19`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Getting ready for school and the schoo…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/18/) - next →: [Getting ready for school and the schoo…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/)