--- title: A boy in Wellington gets his own library card from the public librar… — The library and books · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Wellington gets his own library card from the public library with his mum; now he can borrow many books for free and only buys the ones he loves. Who acts: boy. 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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), 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:4 # text = A boy in Wellington gets his own library card from the public library with his mum; now he can borrow many books for free and only buys the ones he loves. # 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 ×3 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 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 borrow borrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 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 | **get** | present | a boy in Wellington | boy's own library card | | the public library | | with boy's mum | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent card=Theme from library=Source | | 2 | **borrow** | can | boy | many books | | | now | for free | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | | 3 | **buy** | present | boy *not said here* | the ones | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **love** | present | boy | the ones *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | 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: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 ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/3/) - next →: [The library and books, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/)