--- title: A boy in Minnesota went out to play in the snow in thin gloves; afte… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Minnesota went out to play in the snow in thin gloves; after an hour his fingers were white and numb with frostnip, and he had to warm them slowly indoors. Who acts: boy, fingers. 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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, fingers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Minnesota went out to play in the snow in thin gloves; after an hour his fingers were white and numb with frostnip, and he had to warm them slowly indoors. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 Minnesota Minnesota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 numb numb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 frostnip frostnip NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 35 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **go out** | past | a boy in Minnesota | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | a boy in Minnesota *not said here* | | | the snow | | in thin gloves | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | boy's fingers | | | | hour | with frostnip; white *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | boy's fingers *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **warm** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | fingers *= finger* | | | | indoors, slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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