--- title: Ava's cousin told a story about a bear at a campsite: the smell, the… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics description: Ava's cousin told a story about a bear at a campsite: the smell, the scrape of claws on the bin, her dad shouting in his pants. Who acts: cousin, 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 (cousin, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:23 # text = Ava's cousin told a story about a bear at a campsite: the smell, the scrape of claws on the bin, her dad shouting in his pants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 450-too-many-details-too-few.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 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 campsite campsite NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 scrape scrape NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 28 in in 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 pants pants NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ava's cousin | a story | | | | about a bear at a campsite and the smell and the scrape of claws on the bin | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about bear=Topic | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | cousin's dad | | | dad's pants | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scrape** | | | claws on the bin | | | | | nom scrape «event transitive»: of=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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:23`. **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: [Too many details, too few, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/22/) - next →: [Too many details, too few, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/)