--- title: A man at a park in Ohio told a girl he had lost his puppy and asked… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics description: A man at a park in Ohio told a girl he had lost his puppy and asked her to help look in his van; she said no, ran to her mum, and the police were called. Who acts: man, puppy. 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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 (man, puppy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:6 # text = A man at a park in Ohio told a girl he had lost his puppy and asked her to help look in his van; she said no, ran to her mum, and the police were called. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 iobj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 van van NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 30 discourse _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a man at a park in Ohio | | a girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | man | man's puppy | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Eventuality | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a man at a park in Ohio *not said here* | | puppy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a man at a park in Ohio *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **look** *not said to happen* | infinitive | a man at a park in Ohio *not said here* | | | | | in man's van | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in van=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | puppy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **run** | past | puppy *not said here* | | | | | to puppy's mum *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mum=Result | | 8 | **call** | past · passive | | the police | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:6`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Strangers and tricky people, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/5/) - next →: [Strangers and tricky people, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/)