--- title: A girl in Dublin did not mention to the doctor that her tummy pain h… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Dublin did not mention to the doctor that her tummy pain had moved to the lower right side; the next day it was much worse and it turned out to be appendicitis needing surgery. Who acts: girl, tummy pain, pain, appendicitis. 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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, tummy pain, pain, appendicitis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:18 # text = A girl in Dublin did not mention to the doctor that her tummy pain had moved to the lower right side; the next day it was much worse and it turned out to be appendicitis needing surgery. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 mention mention VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 appendicitis appendicitis NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 37 needing need VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | past · do-support | a girl in Dublin | | the doctor | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to doctor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **move** | past · perfect | girl's tummy pain | | | the lower right side | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | past | pain | | | | day | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **turn out** | past | pain | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | pain *not said here* | appendicitis | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | gerund | appendicitis *not said here* | surgery | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=Theme | | 7 | **pain** | | girl | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Helpers in town and building sites, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/17/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)