--- title: Sam remembers the swimming trip: he was the only boy who wouldn't do… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: Sam remembers the swimming trip: he was the only boy who wouldn't do the cannonball off the high board, and he felt awful. Who acts: Sam, only boy. 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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 (Sam, only boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:13 # text = Sam remembers the swimming trip: he was the only boy who wouldn't do the cannonball off the high board, and he felt awful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.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): no change 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cannonball cannonball NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 off off ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | present | Sam | the swimming trip and the only boy | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent trip=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | Sam | the only boy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **do** | would | the only boy | the cannonball | | | | off the high board | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannonball=Eventuality | | 4 | **feel** | past | Sam | | | | | awful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/12/) - next →: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)