--- title: At a new swimming club Sam stands at the side until he asks a boy, «… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: At a new swimming club Sam stands at the side until he asks a boy, «You doing the fifty metres?» They talk times, then Minecraft. Who acts: Sam, boy, metres. 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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 (Sam, boy, metres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:21 # text = At a new swimming club Sam stands at the side until he asks a boy, «You doing the fifty metres?» They talk times, then Minecraft. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 18 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 25 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 Minecraft minecraft PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | Sam | | | a new swimming club | | at the side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at club=Location | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam | | a boy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | a boy *= boy* | the fifty metres | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Eventuality | | 4 | **talk** | present | metres *= metre* | | | | time | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:21`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [The new kid and the first day, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/20/) - next →: [The new kid and the first day, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/)