--- title: In Montreal, Jules goes to grown-up dinners and chats easily about h… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: In Montreal, Jules goes to grown-up dinners and chats easily about hockey and politics, but at recess kids his age seem loud and silly, and he feels left out. Who acts: Jules, recess kids. 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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 (Jules, recess kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:19 # text = In Montreal, Jules goes to grown-up dinners and chats easily about hockey and politics, but at recess kids his age seem loud and silly, and he feels left out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Montreal Montreal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Jules Jules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 dinners dinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 chats chat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 easily easily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hockey hockey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 recess recess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 33 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Jules | | | Montreal | | to grown dinners and chats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **seem** | present | recess kids | | | | | loud *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | present | Jules | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **leave out** | participle | Jules *not said here* | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:19`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The only child: a quiet house, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/18/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)