--- title: At recess a kid brags, «My dad's taking me to the Bears game Sunday!… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: At recess a kid brags, «My dad's taking me to the Bears game Sunday!» (the Bears are an American football team.) Darnell goes quiet; his dad used to take him. Who acts: kid, dad, Bears, Darnell. 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Darnell goes quiet; his dad used to take him. **Who acts:** kid, dad, Bears, Darnell · **What happens:** brag, take, be, go, use · **To what, where:** recess, kid, Bears game, American football team, dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (kid, dad, Bears, Darnell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:7 # text = At recess a kid brags, «My dad's taking me to the Bears game Sunday!» (the Bears are an American football team.) Darnell goes quiet; his dad used to take him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 518-when-a-parent-has-died.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 recess recess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 brags brag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Bears bear PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Bears bear PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 30 Darnell Darnell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 32 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **brag** *speech: other* | present | a kid | | | recess | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present · progressive | My dad | a kid *= kid* | | the Bears game | sunday | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to game=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Bears | a American football team | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | present | Darnell | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | past | Darnell's dad | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | Darnell's dad *not said here* | | dad | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:7`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [When a parent has died, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/6/) - next →: [When a parent has died, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)