--- title: A boy in Florida went close to a pond's edge to look at a small alli… — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Florida went close to a pond's edge to look at a small alligator; a bigger one lunged out of the water, and he only just jumped back in time. Who acts: boy, bigger one. 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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, bigger one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:026-wild-animals.lesson:7 # text = A boy in Florida went close to a pond's edge to look at a small alligator; a bigger one lunged out of the water, and he only just jumped back in time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 026-wild-animals.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 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lunged lunge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | a boy in Florida | | | | | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | a boy in Florida *not said here* | | | | | at a small alligator | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alligator=Theme | | 3 | **lunge** | past | a bigger one | | | the water | | | tree rules | | 4 | **jump back** | past | boy | | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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:026-wild-animals.lesson:7`. **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: [Wild animals: keep away, never feed, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/6/) - next →: [Wild animals: keep away, never feed, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/)