--- title: On a farm in Donegal, two miles from the nearest kid, Ruairí kicks a… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: On a farm in Donegal, two miles from the nearest kid, Ruairí kicks a ball against the barn wall for an hour, doing the commentary himself: «And Ruairí scores AGAIN, the crowd goes mental!» He's having great craic (Irish for fun), but on wet days it gets lonely. Who acts: Ruairí, crowd, craic. 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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 (Ruairí, crowd, craic), 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:8 # text = On a farm in Donegal, two miles from the nearest kid, Ruairí kicks a ball against the barn wall for an hour, doing the commentary himself: «And Ruairí scores AGAIN, the crowd goes mental!» He's having great craic (Irish for fun), but on wet days it gets lonely. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Donegal Donegal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 Ruairí Ruairí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 kicks kick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 commentary commentary NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 30 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 And and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:discourse 33 Ruairí Ruairí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 scores score VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 35 AGAIN again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 40 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 43 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 46 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 50 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 but but CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl _ _ 58 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 60 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 xcomp _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick** | present | Ruairí | a ball | | a farm in Donegal two miles from the nearest kid | hour | against the barn wall | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | Ruairí *not said here* | the commentary | | | | Ruairí *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commentary=Eventuality | | 3 | **score** *in a quote* | present | Ruairí | | | | again | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | the crowd | | | | | mental *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present · progressive | crowd | great craic | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craic=Patient | | 6 | **get** | present | craic | | | | day | lonely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/7/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)