--- title: A boy in Dallas finds colourful pills on the kitchen table; he does… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Dallas finds colourful pills on the kitchen table; he does not touch them, he tells his dad, and his dad puts them away up high. Who acts: boy, dad. 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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, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:3 # text = A boy in Dallas finds colourful pills on the kitchen table; he does not touch them, he tells his dad, and his dad puts them away up high. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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 ×2, 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 Dallas Dallas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 colourful colourful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 30 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **find** | present | a boy in Dallas | colourful pills | | the kitchen table | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Topic | | 2 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | boy | pills *= pill* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | boy | | boy's dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | | 4 | **put away** | present | boy's dad | pills *= pill* | | | | away, high *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | 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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/2/) - next →: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/)