--- title: A boy in Perth tells a visitor, "Go past the library, turn left at t… — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Perth tells a visitor, "Go past the library, turn left at the bakery, and the school is on your right," and she finds it at once. Who acts: boy, school, visitor. 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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, school, visitor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:3 # text = A boy in Perth tells a visitor, "Go past the library, turn left at the bakery, and the school is on your right," and she finds it at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Perth Perth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 visitor visitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 11 past past ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 left left ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bakery bakery NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a boy in Perth | | a visitor | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | the library | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past library=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | the bakery | | left *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at bakery=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the school | | | your right | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | present | visitor | school | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset | 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:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses.lesson:3`. **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: [Railway crossings, maps and addresses, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/2/) - next →: [Railway crossings, maps and addresses, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/)