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title: A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 17

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A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** bore, climb, slip off, break · **To what, where:** boy, home, garage roof, arm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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 (boy), 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:17
# text = A boy in Ohio was bored at home and climbed onto the garage roof for fun; he slipped off and broke his arm.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bored	bore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	garage	garage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **bore** | past · passive |  | a boy in Ohio |  | home |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **climb** | past |  |  |  | the garage roof |  | for fun | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto roof=Trajectory |
| 3 | **slip off** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **break** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's arm |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |

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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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:17`.

**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, R5-strong ×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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