--- title: A girl in Arizona kept pretending to faint for attention; when she r… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Arizona kept pretending to faint for attention; when she really did fall and hurt her wrist, other children thought it was a joke and nobody fetched help for a while. Who acts: girl, other children, child, nobody. 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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, other children, child, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:19 # text = A girl in Arizona kept pretending to faint for attention; when she really did fall and hurt her wrist, other children thought it was a joke and nobody fetched help for a while. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.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): R5-strong ×2 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 Arizona Arizona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 faint faint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 wrist wrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fetched fetch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj 32 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **keep** | past | a girl in Arizona | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pretend** | gerund | a girl in Arizona *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **faint** | to-infinitive | a girl in Arizona *not said here* | | | | | for attention | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **fall** | past · do-support | girl | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hurt** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | girl's wrist | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | other children | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | child | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fetch** | past | nobody | help | | | while | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | 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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:19`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/18/) - next →: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/)