--- title: He's scared and doesn't want to leave his dog, and the wise move is… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics description: He's scared and doesn't want to leave his dog, and the wise move is to tell his parents how he feels and ask lots of questions. Who acts: Henry, wise move. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Rich families: the big house, the nann…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/) / 26 # Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 26 He's scared and doesn't want to leave his dog, and the wise move is to tell his parents how he feels and ask lots of questions. **Who acts:** Henry, wise move · **What happens:** be, not want, leave, feel, ask · **To what, where:** dog, parents, lots This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (Henry, wise move), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:26 # text = He's scared and doesn't want to leave his dog, and the wise move is to tell his parents how he feels and ask lots of questions. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 iobj _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 27 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Henry | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | Henry *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Henry *not said here* | Henry's dog | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the wise move | | Henry's parents | | | tell *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | present | Henry | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the wise move *not said here* | lots of questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient | 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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:26`. **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. 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