--- title: Ethan in Dallas invented a big kid who stole his lunch money — he'd… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics description: Ethan in Dallas invented a big kid who stole his lunch money — he'd spent it on Pokémon cards — and his parents were scared for his safety for nothing. Who acts: Ethan, big kid, parents. 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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 (Ethan, big kid, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:10 # text = Ethan in Dallas invented a big kid who stole his lunch money — he'd spent it on Pokémon cards — and his parents were scared for his safety for nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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 1 Ethan Ethan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Dallas Dallas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Pokémon Pokémon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 — - PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **invent** | past | Ethan in Dallas | a big kid | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **steal** | past | a big kid | Ethan's lunch money | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | | 3 | **spend** | past · perfect | Ethan | money | | | | on Pokémon cards *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on card=Goal | | 4 | **is** | past | Ethan's parents | | | | | for Ethan's safety; for nothing; scared *property* | 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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:10`. **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. **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: [When the story falls apart, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/9/) - next →: [When the story falls apart, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/)