--- title: A boy in New Zealand called Tom kept a pile of cash in his schoolbag… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New Zealand called Tom kept a pile of cash in his schoolbag to show off; it was stolen at break, and he lost his birthday money. 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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:18 # text = A boy in New Zealand called Tom kept a pile of cash in his schoolbag to show off; it was stolen at break, and he lost his birthday money. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 2 nmod _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 7 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 schoolbag schoolbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a boy in New *not said here* | Tom | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient | | 2 | **keep** | past | a boy in New | a pile of cash | | boy's schoolbag | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pile=Theme in schoolbag=Location | | 3 | **show off** | to-infinitive | a boy in New *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **steal** | past · passive | | pile | | break | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **lose** | past | boy | boy's birthday money | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | 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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:18`. **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 ×2. **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: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/17/) - next →: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/)