--- title: A girl in Austin tells the doctor, "It hurts here, on the right side… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Austin tells the doctor, "It hurts here, on the right side of my tummy, since yesterday," and the doctor quickly knows where to look. Who acts: girl, driver, doctor. 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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, driver, doctor), 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:4 # text = A girl in Austin tells the doctor, "It hurts here, on the right side of my tummy, since yesterday," and the doctor quickly knows where to look. # 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): R7-rel-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 Austin Austin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 12 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 since since ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a girl in Austin | the doctor | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | driver | | | the right side of my tummy; here | yesterday | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** | present | the doctor | | | | | quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | the doctor *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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: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): 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: [Helpers in town and building sites, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/3/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)