--- title: A boy in Texas hurt his knee badly on a trampoline but did not tell… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas hurt his knee badly on a trampoline but did not tell anyone because he thought he would get in trouble; it got much worse before he saw a doctor. Who acts: boy, knee. 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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, knee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:5 # text = A boy in Texas hurt his knee badly on a trampoline but did not tell anyone because he thought he would get in trouble; it got much worse before he saw a doctor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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): no change 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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 trampoline trampoline NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | past | a boy in Texas | boy's knee | | a trampoline | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knee=Patient | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | a boy in Texas *not said here* | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | boy | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **get** | would | boy | | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **get** | past | knee | | | | | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **see** | past | boy | a doctor | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus | 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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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): no change. **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: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/4/) - next →: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/)