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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, line, police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:20 # text = A boy in New York prank-called 911 for fun; the line was busy for a real emergency nearby, and police later came to his house. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 911 911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | a boy in New York | 911 | | | | for fun | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent 911=Theme for fun=Beneficiary | | 2 | **is** | past | the line | | | | | for a real emergency; busy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | police | | | Boy's house | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:20`. **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 ×1, 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. 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