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title: A girl in Toronto lies awake before a maths test; she writes «I'm sc… — Worry and sadness · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Toronto lies awake before a maths test; she writes «I'm scared I'll forget fractions» on a note, reminds herself that she practised all week, and falls asleep ten minutes later. Who acts: girl, Worry, Worries. A sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Worry and sadness, sentence 4

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A girl in Toronto lies awake before a maths test; she writes «I'm scared I'll forget fractions» on a note, reminds herself that she practised all week, and falls asleep ten minutes later.

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**Who acts:** girl, Worry, Worries · **What happens:** lie, write, be, forget, remind, practise · **To what, where:** maths test, note, fractions, Worry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Worry and sadness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Worry, Worries), 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:4
# text = A girl in Toronto lies awake before a maths test; she writes «I'm scared I'll forget fractions» on a note, reminds herself that she practised all week, and falls asleep ten minutes later.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	maths	math	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
10	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis
21	fractions	fraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	reminds	remind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | a girl in Toronto |  |  | a maths test |  | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before test=Location |
| 2 | **write** | present | Worry |  |  | a note |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on note=Destination |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Worries *= worry* |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** *in a quote* | future | Worries *= worry* | fractions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | a girl in Toronto *not said here* | Worry |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **practise** | past | Worry |  |  |  | week |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall** | present | a girl in Toronto *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, late *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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