--- title: A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt dizzy and grumpy, and once he fainted in PE. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Breakfast, the school day and honest h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/) / 17 # Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 17 A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt dizzy and grumpy, and once he fainted in PE. **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** skip, feel, faint · **To what, where:** breakfast, PE This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:17 # text = A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt dizzy and grumpy, and once he fainted in PE. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 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 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 mid-morning mid-morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 once once SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fainted faint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 PE pe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **skip** | past | a boy in England | breakfast | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | past | boy | | | | | by mid-morning; dizzy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **faint** | past | boy | | | PE | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:17`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Breakfast, the school day and honest h…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/16/) - next →: [Breakfast, the school day and honest h…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/)