--- title: When a big Station Road boy knocks a little girl off her scooter, Sa… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: When a big Station Road boy knocks a little girl off her scooter, Sam runs to the shop on the corner and tells the man at the counter, who comes straight out. Who acts: big Road boy, Sam, man. 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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 (big Road boy, Sam, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:16 # text = When a big Station Road boy knocks a little girl off her scooter, Sam runs to the shop on the corner and tells the man at the counter, who comes straight out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 scooter scooter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 15 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 counter counter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 33 straight straight ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 out out ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | present | a big Road boy | a little girl | | | | off girl's scooter | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent girl=Patient off scooter=Co-Patient | | 2 | **run** | present | Sam | | | the corner | | to the shop *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shop=Result | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Sam *not said here* | | the man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | present | the man | | | | | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:16`. **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: [Getting help is not telling tales, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/15/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)