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title: A boy in Colorado set off on a hike at three in the afternoon in win… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Colorado set off on a hike at three in the afternoon in winter; darkness came at five, he lost the trail and had to be found by a rescue team. Who acts: boy, darkness, rescue team. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 18

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A boy in Colorado set off on a hike at three in the afternoon in winter; darkness came at five, he lost the trail and had to be found by a rescue team.

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**Who acts:** boy, darkness, rescue team · **What happens:** set off, come, lose, have, find · **To what, where:** hike, five, trail

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, darkness, rescue team), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:18
# text = A boy in Colorado set off on a hike at three in the afternoon in winter; darkness came at five, he lost the trail and had to be found by a rescue team.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hike	hike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:agent	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | infinitive | a boy in Colorado *not said here* |  |  | a hike | winter | at three in the afternoon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | darkness |  |  | five |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at five=Location |
| 3 | **lose** | past | a boy in Colorado | the trail |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | a boy in Colorado *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | a rescue team |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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