--- title: A girl in Texas kept laughing at an autistic classmate who rocked wh… — Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to spea… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas kept laughing at an autistic classmate who rocked when upset; the classmate became so stressed that he could not come to school for a week. Who acts: girl, autistic classmate, classmate. 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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 (girl, autistic classmate, classmate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:21 # text = A girl in Texas kept laughing at an autistic classmate who rocked when upset; the classmate became so stressed that he could not come to school for a week. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 autistic autistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 rocked rock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **keep** | past | a girl in Texas | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | a girl in Texas *not said here* | | | a autistic classmate | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rock** | past | a autistic classmate | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | the classmate | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stress** | participle | the classmate *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **come** | could | classmate | | | school | week | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | 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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:21`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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