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title: Clearing his drawer, Kieran finds a photo of him and Tom in Year 2,… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Clearing his drawer, Kieran finds a photo of him and Tom in Year 2, gap-toothed, holding a frog. Who acts: Kieran. A sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing apart, sentence 32

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Clearing his drawer, Kieran finds a photo of him and Tom in Year 2, gap-toothed, holding a frog.

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**Who acts:** Kieran · **What happens:** clear, find, hold · **To what, where:** drawer, photo, frog

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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 (Kieran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:464-growing-apart.lesson:32
# text = Clearing his drawer, Kieran finds a photo of him and Tom in Year 2, gap-toothed, holding a frog.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 464-growing-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): no change
1	Clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	toothed	toothed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** | gerund | Kieran *not said here* | Tom's drawer |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent drawer=Source |
| 2 | **find** | present | Kieran | a photo of Tom |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Topic |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | Kieran *not said here* | a frog |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |

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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.

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**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:464-growing-apart.lesson:32`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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