--- title: A boy in Vancouver playing a game puts a timer on, and when it rings… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Vancouver playing a game puts a timer on, and when it rings he looks out of the window at the far trees and walks around the room. Who acts: boy, timer. 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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, timer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:4 # text = A boy in Vancouver playing a game puts a timer on, and when it rings he looks out of the window at the far trees and walks around the room. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 008-posture-and-screens.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 timer timer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 around around ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | a boy in Vancouver *not said here* | a game | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **put on** | present | a boy in Vancouver | a timer | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent timer=Goal | | 3 | **ring** | present | timer | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look out** | present | boy | the window | | the far trees | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk** | present | boy *not said here* | | | the room | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Trajectory | 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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:4`. **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, 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: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/3/) - next →: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/)