--- title: A boy in Colorado left the trail in the woods to follow a deer; he g… — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Colorado left the trail in the woods to follow a deer; he got lost, and it took searchers all night to find him cold and frightened. Who acts: boy, it. 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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, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:23 # text = A boy in Colorado left the trail in the woods to follow a deer; he got lost, and it took searchers all night to find him cold and frightened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.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 ×2 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 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:expl 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 23 searchers searcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **leave** | past | a boy in Colorado | the trail | | the woods | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme in wood=Location | | 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | a boy in Colorado *not said here* | a deer | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | past · passive | | boy | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **take** | past | it | searchers | | | night | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent searcher=Theme | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | | boy | | | | cold *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 6 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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