--- title: A boy in Ohio cannot finish his Lego spaceship; he has a drink, look… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio cannot finish his Lego spaceship; he has a drink, looks at the instructions again, spots a missing piece on page 12, and the ship holds together at last. Who acts: boy, ship. 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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 (boy, ship), 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:4 # text = A boy in Ohio cannot finish his Lego spaceship; he has a drink, looks at the instructions again, spots a missing piece on page 12, and the ship holds together at last. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 spaceship spaceship NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 spots spot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 29 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 together together ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **finish** | can | a boy in Ohio | boy's Lego spaceship | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector spaceship=Eventuality | | 2 | **have** | present | boy | a drink | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | | 3 | **look** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | again | at the instructions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at instruction=Theme | | 4 | **spot** | present | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | a missing piece | | page | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Destination | | 5 | **hold together** | present | the ship | | | last | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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. 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