--- title: Lily has never played rounders; she misses five times, then whacks t… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics description: Lily has never played rounders; she misses five times, then whacks the ball into the duck pond, and everyone, Lily too, screams laughing. Who acts: Lily, everyone. 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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 (Lily, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:17 # text = Lily has never played rounders; she misses five times, then whacks the ball into the duck pond, and everyone, Lily too, screams laughing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 rounders rounder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 whacks whack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 screams scream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 . . 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 | **not** **play** | present · perfect | Lily | rounders | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rounder=Theme | | 2 | **miss** | present | Lily | | | | time | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **whack** | present | Lily *not said here* | the ball | | | then | into the duck pond *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent ball=Patient into pond=Result | | 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | everyone | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:17`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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