--- title: A boy in New Zealand climbed onto a thin branch high in a tree to re… — Climbing trees and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New Zealand climbed onto a thin branch high in a tree to reach a ball; the branch snapped and he fell, breaking his leg in two places. Who acts: boy, branch. 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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 (boy, branch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:004-climbing.lesson:5 # text = A boy in New Zealand climbed onto a thin branch high in a tree to reach a ball; the branch snapped and he fell, breaking his leg in two places. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 004-climbing.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 onto onto ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 snapped snap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 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 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | past | a boy in New Zealand | | | a thin branch | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto branch=Trajectory | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | a boy in New Zealand *not said here* | a ball | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 3 | **snap** | past | the branch | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | boy | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **break** | gerund | boy *not said here* | boy's leg | | two places | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | 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:004-climbing.lesson:5`. **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. **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: [Climbing trees and playgrounds, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/4/) - next →: [Climbing trees and playgrounds, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/4-climbing/)