--- title: A boy in Texas called Leo did not understand fractions but was too e… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas called Leo did not understand fractions but was too embarrassed to ask; by the end of the year he could not follow any of the lessons that built on them. Who acts: boy, lessons. 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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, lessons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Texas called Leo did not understand fractions but was too embarrassed to ask; by the end of the year he could not follow any of the lessons that built on them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 6 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 fractions fraction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a boy in Texas *not said here* | Leo | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leo=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | a boy in Texas | fractions | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fraction=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | a boy in Texas *not said here* | | | | | embarrassed *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | a boy in Texas *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **follow** | could | boy | any | | | by the end of the year | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent any=Theme by end=Trajectory | | 6 | **build** | past | the lessons | | | | | on fractions *= fraction* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on they=Source | 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:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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): 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. 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