--- title: A boy in Canada climbed the library shelves to reach a book at the t… — The library and books · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Canada climbed the library shelves to reach a book at the top; the shelf tipped and books fell on him, cutting his head. Who acts: boy, shelf, books. 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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, shelf, books), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:259-library-and-books.lesson:16 # text = A boy in Canada climbed the library shelves to reach a book at the top; the shelf tipped and books fell on him, cutting his head. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 259-library-and-books.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, 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 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 shelves shelf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 tipped tip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **climb** | past | a boy in Canada | the library shelves | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location shelf=Theme | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | a boy in Canada *not said here* | a book | | the top | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent book=Theme at top=Asset | | 3 | **tip** | past | the shelf | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fall** | past | books | | | | | on boy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | | 5 | **cut** | gerund | books *not said here* | boy's head | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=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:259-library-and-books.lesson:16`. **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, 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: [The library and books, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/15/) - next →: [The library and books, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/)