--- title: A boy in Bristol could not read the board, so he told his teacher; a… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Bristol could not read the board, so he told his teacher; an eye test showed he needed glasses, and now his maths is much easier. Who acts: boy, eye test, test, maths. 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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, eye test, test, maths), 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:3 # text = A boy in Bristol could not read the board, so he told his teacher; an eye test showed he needed glasses, and now his maths is much easier. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Bristol Bristol 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 read read 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 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 iobj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **not** **read** | could | a boy in Bristol | the board | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy | | boy's teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 3 | **show** | past | a eye test | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **need** | past | test | glasses | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | boy's maths | | | | now | easy *property* | tree rules | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/2/) - next →: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/)