--- title: On Monday he pretends to have a tummy ache so he won't have to walk… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: On Monday he pretends to have a tummy ache so he won't have to walk past the rec (the park and playing field) where the big boys play. Who acts: Sam, big boys. 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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, big boys), 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:6 # text = On Monday he pretends to have a tummy ache so he won't have to walk past the rec (the park and playing field) where the big boys play. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pretends pretend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 ache ache NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 past past ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rec rec NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 playing play NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | present | Sam | | | | monday | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | a tummy ache | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient | | 3 | **not** **have** | future | Sam | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | | | the rec | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past rec=Trajectory | | 5 | **play** | present | the big boys | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/5/) - next →: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)