--- title: His dad turned the box over and showed him the little pictures that… — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics description: His dad turned the box over and showed him the little pictures that say why a game got its number: a fist for violence, a speech bubble for bad language, a spider for scary content. Who acts: dad, little pictures, game. 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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 (dad, little pictures, game), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:12 # text = His dad turned the box over and showed him the little pictures that say why a game got its number: a fist for violence, a speech bubble for bad language, a spider for scary content. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 over over ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fist fist NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:appos 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 content content NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn over** | past | rating's dad | the box | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 2 | **show** | past | rating's dad *not said here* | the little pictures | rating | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient picture=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the little pictures | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | past | a game | game's number | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | 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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-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: [What the numbers on the box mean, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/11/) - next →: [What the numbers on the box mean, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean/)