--- title: Noah told a player his house was near the big football stadium, whic… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics description: Noah told a player his house was near the big football stadium, which felt like just chatting, until his dad explained that small clues can help someone find you. Who acts: Noah, house, big football stadium, dad. 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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 (Noah, house, big football stadium, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:22 # text = Noah told a player his house was near the big football stadium, which felt like just chatting, until his dad explained that small clues can help someone find you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 stadium stadium NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 like like SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 chatting chat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 until until SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 29 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 obj _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Noah | a player | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent player=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | Noah's house | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | past | the big football stadium | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | the big football stadium *not said here* | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Noah's dad | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** | can | small clues | someone | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **find** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | you | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | 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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:22`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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