--- title: A boy in Florida held a lit sparkler and waved it near his sister's… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Florida held a lit sparkler and waved it near his sister's dress on the Fourth of July; the dress caught fire, and she had burns on her leg. Who acts: boy, dress, Florida. 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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, dress, Florida), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Florida held a lit sparkler and waved it near his sister's dress on the Fourth of July; the dress caught fire, and she had burns on her leg. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 265-holidays-of-the-region.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sparkler sparkler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 burns burn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **hold** | past | a boy in Florida | a lit sparkler | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparkler=Theme | | 2 | **wave** | past | a boy in Florida *not said here* | family | | boy's sister's dress | | on the Fourth of July | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **catch** | past | the dress | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | Florida | burns | | Florida's leg | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Patient | 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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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: [Holidays of the region, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/16/) - next →: [Holidays of the region, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/)