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title: Boredom is often the start of creativity: you can build a den, read,… — Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments · tree and pragmatics
description: Boredom is often the start of creativity: you can build a den, read, draw, write a story, do a puzzle or help cook. Who acts: Boredom, you. A sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 13

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Boredom is often the start of creativity: you can build a den, read, draw, write a story, do a puzzle or help cook.

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**Who acts:** Boredom, you · **What happens:** be, build, read, draw, write, do · **To what, where:** start, den, story, puzzle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boredom, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:13
# text = Boredom is often the start of creativity: you can build a den, read, draw, write a story, do a puzzle or help cook.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Boredom	boredom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	creativity	creativity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Boredom | the start |  |  |  | of creativity; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | can | you | a den |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Product |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **write** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a story |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a puzzle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Eventuality |
| 7 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **cook** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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