--- title: In Seattle a boy uses the r-word, a cruel old word for people with l… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics description: In Seattle a boy uses the r-word, a cruel old word for people with learning disabilities, about Eli's sister Romilly, who has Down syndrome (something you are born with that makes learning slower). Who acts: boy, Romilly. 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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 (boy, Romilly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:11 # text = In Seattle a boy uses the r-word, a cruel old word for people with learning disabilities, about Eli's sister Romilly, who has Down syndrome (something you are born with that makes learning slower). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Seattle Seattle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 19 disabilities disability NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 Eli Eli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:desc _ _ 25 Romilly Romilly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 Down Down PROPN NNP _ 30 compound _ _ 30 syndrome syndrome NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 appos _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 with with SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:ccomp 39 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 40 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 . . 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 | **use** | present | a boy | the r word | | Seattle | | about Romilly Eli's sister | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | Romilly Eli's sister | Down syndrome | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syndrome=Patient | | 3 | **bear** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | | learning | | | | slow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset learning=Product | 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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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