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title: A girl in Ireland felt unwell at school but told no adult and walked… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Ireland felt unwell at school but told no adult and walked home alone; she fainted on the way, and her parents did not know where she was. Who acts: girl, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 19

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A girl in Ireland felt unwell at school but told no adult and walked home alone; she fainted on the way, and her parents did not know where she was.

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**Who acts:** girl, parents · **What happens:** feel, tell, walk, faint, not know, be · **To what, where:** school, adult, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, parents), 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:19
# text = A girl in Ireland felt unwell at school but told no adult and walked home alone; she fainted on the way, and her parents did not know where she was.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unwell	unwell	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | a girl in Ireland |  |  | school |  | unwell *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Ireland *not said here* |  | no adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 3 | **walk** | past | a girl in Ireland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **faint** | past | girl |  |  | the way |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | girl's parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): 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/).

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