--- title: A boy in England flew his kite near overhead power lines; the kite s… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in England flew his kite near overhead power lines; the kite string touched the wires and the electricity went down the string, and he was badly burnt. Who acts: boy, kite string, electricity. 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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, kite string, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:10 # text = A boy in England flew his kite near overhead power lines; the kite string touched the wires and the electricity went down the string, and he was badly burnt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 032-electricity-at-home.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 overhead overhead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:cop 30 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 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 | **fly** | past | a boy in England | boy's kite | | overhead power lines | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme near line=Location | | 2 | **touch** | past | the kite string | the wires | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme | | 3 | **go down** | past | the electricity | the string | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **burn** | past · passive | | wire | | | | badly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **kite** | | boy | | | | | | nom kite «possession 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:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Electricity at home, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/9/) - next →: [Electricity at home, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/)