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title: His dad, coming back along the trail, finds him within minutes. — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: His dad, coming back along the trail, finds him within minutes. Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 8

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His dad, coming back along the trail, finds him within minutes.

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**Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** come back, find · **To what, where:** trail, boy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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 (dad), 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:8
# text = His dad, coming back along the trail, finds him within minutes.
# 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): no change
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | gerund | boy's dad *not said here* |  |  | the trail |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along trail=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | present | boy's dad | boy |  |  | minute |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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**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:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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