--- title: A boy wants to climb over for a better photo, but his mum explains t… — Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy wants to climb over for a better photo, but his mum explains that cliff edges can crumble without warning, so he takes the photo from behind the fence. Who acts: boy, mum, cliff edges. 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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, mum, cliff edges), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:5 # text = A boy wants to climb over for a better photo, but his mum explains that cliff edges can crumble without warning, so he takes the photo from behind the fence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.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 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 crumble crumble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 22 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 behind behind ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | a boy | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **climb over** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy *not said here* | | | | | for a better photo; over *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | boy's mum | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **crumble** | can | cliff edges | | | | | without warning | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **take** | present | boy | the photo | | the fence | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent photo=Theme from fence=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:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:5`. **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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