--- title: A boy in Queensland spent a beach day without sunscreen or a shirt;… — Sun, cold and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Queensland spent a beach day without sunscreen or a shirt; his back blistered with sunburn, he had a fever and could not sleep for nights. Who acts: boy. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Queensland spent a beach day without sunscreen or a shirt; his back blistered with sunburn, he had a fever and could not sleep for nights. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 Queensland Queensland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sunscreen sunscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 blistered blister VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sunburn sunburn NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **spend** | past | a boy in Queensland | | | | day | without sunscreen or a shirt | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **blister** | past · passive | | boy's back | | | | with sunburn | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | boy | a fever | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient | | 4 | **not** **sleep** | could | boy *not said here* | | | | night | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:17`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [Sun, cold and growing up, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/86-sun-cold-and-growing-up/16/) - next →: [Sun, cold and growing up, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/86-sun-cold-and-growing-up/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/86-sun-cold-and-growing-up/)