--- title: Mrs Okafor keeps a little notebook, and one day she noticed somethin… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: Mrs Okafor keeps a little notebook, and one day she noticed something in it: the same group of boys ended up fighting every Friday, just after swimming, when everyone was tired, hungry and wet-haired. Who acts: Mrs, boys, everyone. 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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 (Mrs, boys, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:0 # text = Mrs Okafor keeps a little notebook, and one day she noticed something in it: the same group of boys ended up fighting every Friday, just after swimming, when everyone was tired, hungry and wet-haired. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Okafor Okafor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 notebook notebook NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Mrs | a little notebook | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | past | Mrs | something | | notebook | day | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 3 | **end up** | past | boys *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fight** | gerund | boys *not said here* | | | | friday | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swim** | gerund | boys *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | everyone | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:0`. **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: [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/26/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)