--- title: A girl in Ontario could not see the board for months but did not say… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Ontario could not see the board for months but did not say; her marks dropped, and when she finally got glasses she said everything looked sharp for the first time. Who acts: girl, marks, everything. 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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 (girl, marks, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:17 # text = A girl in Ontario could not see the board for months but did not say; her marks dropped, and when she finally got glasses she said everything looked sharp for the first time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 087-eyes-ears-and-moving.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ontario Ontario PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 finally finally ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 29 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 nsubj _ _ 30 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | could | a girl in Ontario | the board | | | month | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | a girl in Ontario *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **drop** | past | girl's marks | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | girl | glasses | | | | finally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **look** | past | everything | | | | time | sharp *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **mark** | | girl | | | | | | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.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. **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: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/16/) - next →: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/)