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title: After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the p… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the path to school. Who acts: boy, worms. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 5

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After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the path to school.

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**Who acts:** boy, worms · **What happens:** find, dry out · **To what, where:** worms, path

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 (boy, worms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:5
# text = After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the path to school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a boy in Ireland | worms |  |  | night |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent worm=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **dry out** | gerund | worms *not said here* |  |  | the path to school |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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/).

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