--- title: A boy in Leeds was afraid of the dentist and hid his toothache for w… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds was afraid of the dentist and hid his toothache for weeks; by the time he went, the tooth needed taking out instead of a small filling. Who acts: boy, tooth. 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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, tooth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:16 # text = A boy in Leeds was afraid of the dentist and hid his toothache for weeks; by the time he went, the tooth needed taking out instead of a small filling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 090-facing-fears.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 toothache toothache NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 26 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 28 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 32 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 filling filling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is** | past | a boy in Leeds | | | | | of the dentist; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | past | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | boy's toothache | | | week | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient | | 3 | **go** | past | boy | the time *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | | 4 | **need** | past | the tooth | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **take out** *not said to happen* | gerund | the tooth *not said here* | | | | | instead a small filling | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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:090-facing-fears.lesson:16`. **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, 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: [Facing fears, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/15/) - next →: [Facing fears, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)