--- title: A boy in Ohio kept his worries about his parents arguing to himself… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio kept his worries about his parents arguing to himself for months; he stopped sleeping well, got stomach aches every morning and his marks dropped, until he told his teacher and things got better. Who acts: boy, parents, parent, marks. 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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, parents, parent, marks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:18 # text = A boy in Ohio kept his worries about his parents arguing to himself for months; he stopped sleeping well, got stomach aches every morning and his marks dropped, until he told his teacher and things got better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 091-worry-and-sadness.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 xcomp _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 23 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 iobj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 40 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . 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 | **keep** | past | a boy in Ohio | Ohio's worries | | | | about Ohio's parents | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent worry=Theme about parent=Location | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | Ohio's parents *not said here* | | parent | | month | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | past | parent | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **sleep** | gerund | parent *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | past | parent *not said here* | stomach aches | | | morning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus | | 6 | **drop** | past | parent's marks | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | parent | | parent's teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 8 | **get** | past | things | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **worry** | | Ohio | | | | | about Ohio's parents | nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl | | 10 | **mark** | | parent | | | | | | 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:091-worry-and-sadness.lesson:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Worry and sadness, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/17/) - next →: [Worry and sadness, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/)