--- title: A girl in Vancouver is bored on a rainy Saturday with no screens; sh… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Vancouver is bored on a rainy Saturday with no screens; she builds a blanket den, reads a comic inside it, and by lunchtime she has written a story about a dragon who lives in a den. Who acts: girl, dragon. 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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 (girl, dragon), 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:4 # text = A girl in Vancouver is bored on a rainy Saturday with no screens; she builds a blanket den, reads a comic inside it, and by lunchtime she has written a story about a dragon who lives in a den. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 bored bore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 comic comic NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 inside inside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 lunchtime lunchtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bore** | present · passive | | a girl in Vancouver | | | saturday | with no screens | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with screen=Instrument | | 2 | **build** | present | girl | a blanket den | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Product | | 3 | **read** | present | girl *not said here* | a comic | | comic | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Topic | | 4 | **write** | present · perfect | girl | a story | | | | by lunchtime; about a dragon | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about dragon=Topic | | 5 | **live** | present | a dragon | | | a den | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in den=Location | 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: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): R7-rel-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: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/3/) - next →: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/)