--- title: The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was… — Walking away · tree and pragmatics description: The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was shouting at an empty pavement, and went home for his tea. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/) / 3 # Walking away, sentence 3 The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was shouting at an empty pavement, and went home for his tea. **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** shout, find, go · **To what, where:** chicken, empty pavement · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:3 # text = The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was shouting at an empty pavement, and went home for his tea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 371-walking-away.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 home home ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 for for 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 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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* | past | the boy | chicken | | | time | four *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Topic | | 2 | **find** | past | the boy *not said here* | | | | then | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · progressive | boy | | | a empty pavement | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | the boy *not said here* | | | | | for boy's tea; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for tea=Beneficiary | 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:371-walking-away.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Walking away, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/1/) - next →: [Walking away, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/)