--- title: Example: a boy in Florida is asked to watch his little sister in the… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics description: Example: a boy in Florida is asked to watch his little sister in the bath while his mum answers the door. Who acts: boy, mum. 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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, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:3 # text = Example: a boy in Florida is asked to watch his little sister in the bath while his mum answers the door. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:discourse 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | a boy in Florida | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Florida *not said here* | boy's little sister | | the bath | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | boy's mum | the door | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality | 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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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): R5-strong ×2, 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: [Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, slee…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/2/) - next →: [Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, slee…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/)