--- title: A girl in Ohio goes trick-or-treating with her dad, knocks only wher… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Ohio goes trick-or-treating with her dad, knocks only where the porch light is on, and lets him check her sweets before she eats any. Who acts: girl, porch light, Ohio. 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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 (girl, porch light, Ohio), 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:4 # text = A girl in Ohio goes trick-or-treating with her dad, knocks only where the porch light is on, and lets him check her sweets before she eats any. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 treating treat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 15 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 porch porch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 on on ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **go** | present | a girl in Ohio | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **trick** | infinitive | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **treat** | gerund | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | | | | | with girl's dad | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with dad=Theme | | 4 | **knock** | present | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | the porch light | | | | | on *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **let** | present | a girl in Ohio *not said here* | Ohio | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **check** | infinitive | Ohio *not said here* | girl's sweets | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | | 8 | **eat** | present | girl | any | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/3/) - next →: [Holidays of the region, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/)