--- title: Boredom is the restless feeling of having nothing to do; it is not a… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics description: Boredom is the restless feeling of having nothing to do; it is not a disaster but a chance, because boredom is often where new ideas, games and stories begin. Who acts: Boredom, restless feeling, boredom new ideas. 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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 (Boredom, restless feeling, boredom new ideas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:0 # text = Boredom is the restless feeling of having nothing to do; it is not a disaster but a chance, because boredom is often where new ideas, games and stories begin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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 1 Boredom boredom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 restless restless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 22 boredom boredom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Boredom | the restless feeling | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | gerund | the restless feeling *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the restless feeling *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | Boredom | a disaster but a chance | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | because boredom new ideas and games and stories; often *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **begin** | present | boredom new ideas and games and stories | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Disappointment, jealousy and embarrass…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/92-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment/18/) - next →: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/)