--- title: A boy in Ohio laughed at a new girl's accent every day; she started… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio laughed at a new girl's accent every day; she started to dread school and cried at home, and it took her months to feel happy there again. Who acts: boy, girl, new girl. 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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, girl, new girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Ohio laughed at a new girl's accent every day; she started to dread school and cried at home, and it took her months to feel happy there again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 dread dread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 expl _ _ 27 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 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 | **laugh** | past | a boy in Ohio | | | a new girl's accent | day | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **start** | past | girl | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **dread** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | school | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer school=Stimulus | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | girl *not said here* | | | home | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 5 | **take** | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | home | girl | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | | | there | again | happy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **accent** | | a new girl | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Manners and kindness, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/4/) - next →: [Manners and kindness, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/)