--- title: A boy in Wellington hears the earthquake drill signal, drops under h… — Getting ready for school and the school day · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Wellington hears the earthquake drill signal, drops under his desk, covers his head and holds on to the desk leg until his teacher says it is over. Who acts: boy, teacher. 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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, teacher), 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:4 # text = A boy in Wellington hears the earthquake drill signal, drops under his desk, covers his head and holds on to the desk leg until his teacher says it is over. # 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, 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 Wellington Wellington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 drill drill NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 desk desk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 21 on on ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 desk desk NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 over over ADV RB _ 29 ccomp _ _ 33 . . 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 | **hear** | present | a boy in Wellington | the drill signal | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer signal=Stimulus | | 2 | **drop** | present | a boy in Wellington *not said here* | | | boy's desk | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under desk=Trajectory | | 3 | **cover** | present | a boy in Wellington *not said here* | boy's head | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | | 4 | **hold on** | present | a boy in Wellington *not said here* | | | | | to the desk leg | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | boy's teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | teacher | | | | | over *property* | 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:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Getting ready for school and the schoo…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/3/) - next →: [Getting ready for school and the schoo…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/)