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title: A boy in Leeds got so frustrated with his maths homework that he tor… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds got so frustrated with his maths homework that he tore up his book; he had to redo all the pages and still did not understand the sums until he asked for help. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» of the everyday course of M
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# Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 20

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A boy in Leeds got so frustrated with his maths homework that he tore up his book; he had to redo all the pages and still did not understand the sums until he asked for help.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** get, tear up, have, redo, not understand, ask · **To what, where:** book, pages, sums

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:20
# text = A boy in Leeds got so frustrated with his maths homework that he tore up his book; he had to redo all the pages and still did not understand the sums until he asked for help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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
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	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frustrated	frustrated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tore	tear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	redo	redo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **get** | past | a boy in Leeds |  |  |  |  | frustrated *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tear up** | past | boy | boy's book |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location book=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **redo** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | all pages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | boy *not said here* | the sums |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sum=Stimulus |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | boy |  |  |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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. **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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