--- title: Two boys in Leeds started arguing over a ball and it turned into a s… — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics description: Two boys in Leeds started arguing over a ball and it turned into a shove; one fell, hit his head on the ground and needed stitches. Who acts: Two boys, other, one. 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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 (Two boys, other, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:5 # text = Two boys in Leeds started arguing over a ball and it turned into a shove; one fell, hit his head on the ground and needed stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 054-solving-disagreements-calmly.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shove shove NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **start** | past | Two boys in Leeds | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | Two boys in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | over a ball | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over ball=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past | other | | | a shove | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into shove=Trajectory | | 4 | **fall** | past | one | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hit** | past | one *not said here* | Leeds's head | | | | on the ground | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on ground=Patient | | 6 | **need** | past | one *not said here* | stitches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | 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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Solving disagreements calmly, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/4/) - next →: [Solving disagreements calmly, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/)