--- title: A boy in New York picked up a call from an unknown number and told t… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New York picked up a call from an unknown number and told the caller his address and that his parents were out; his mum was very worried and they told the police. Who acts: boy, parents, mum, callers. 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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, parents, mum, callers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:24 # text = A boy in New York picked up a call from an unknown number and told the caller his address and that his parents were out; his mum was very worried and they told the police. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 flat _ _ 5 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 caller caller NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 iobj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 out out ADV RB _ 19 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 iobj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | a boy in New York | a call | | a unknown number | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a boy in New York *not said here* | boy's address | the caller | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient address=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | boy's parents | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | boy's mum | | | | | worried *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | callers *= caller* | | the police | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | | 6 | **address** | | boy | | | | | | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:24`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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