--- title: A girl in Vermont plays on the icy playground: she walks carefully,… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Vermont plays on the icy playground: she walks carefully, throws soft snowballs at nobody's face, and when the bell rings she stops at once and lines up. Who acts: girl, bell. 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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 (girl, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:4 # text = A girl in Vermont plays on the icy playground: she walks carefully, throws soft snowballs at nobody's face, and when the bell rings she stops at once and lines up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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, R8-pos-agree ×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 Vermont Vermont PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 snowballs snowball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 once once ADV RB _ 29 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 lines line VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . 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 | **play** | present | a girl in Vermont | | | the icy playground | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **walk** | present | girl | | | | | carefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **throw** | present | girl *not said here* | soft snowballs | | nobody's face | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent snowball=Theme at face=Destination | | 4 | **ring** | present | the bell | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | present | girl | | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | | 6 | **line up** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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): R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/3/) - next →: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/)