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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 (shepherd boy, real wolf, nobody), 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:3 # text = In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», a shepherd boy shouts «Wolf!» as a joke again and again; when a real wolf comes, nobody believes him and nobody comes. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 5 Who who PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 Cried Cried PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 7 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 14 « « ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 29 mark _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 nsubj _ _ 32 believes believe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 conj _ _ 36 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | a shepherd boy | Wolf | | | again | as a joke | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | | 2 | **come** | present | a real wolf | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **believe** | present | nobody | Wolf | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | present | | | | | | in the Boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boy=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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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