--- title: After two hours of Roblox curled over his tablet like a prawn, Kai s… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: After two hours of Roblox curled over his tablet like a prawn, Kai stood up and said «ow, my neck» in the voice of his grandad. Who acts: Kai. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/0/) [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/) / [Eyes, backs and thumbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/) / 0 # Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 0 After two hours of Roblox curled over his tablet like a prawn, Kai stood up and said «ow, my neck» in the voice of his grandad. **Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** curl over, stand up, say · **To what, where:** tablet, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 (Kai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:0 # text = After two hours of Roblox curled over his tablet like a prawn, Kai stood up and said «ow, my neck» in the voice of his grandad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Roblox Roblox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 curled curl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 7 over over ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prawn prawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ow ow INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curl over** | participle | Kai *not said here* | Roblox's tablet | | | hour | like a prawn | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand up** | past | Kai | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kai *not said here* | | | the voice of Kai's grandad | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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): R6-punct-agree ×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: [Homework first?, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/28/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)