--- title: A boy in Texas, jealous of his new baby sister, tried to lift her ou… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas, jealous of his new baby sister, tried to lift her out of her cot by himself; she nearly fell, and his dad caught her just in time. Who acts: boy, Texas, dad. 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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, Texas, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Texas, jealous of his new baby sister, tried to lift her out of her cot by himself; she nearly fell, and his dad caught her just in time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 cot cot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | a boy in Texas | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **lift** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Texas *not said here* | Texas | | Texas's cot | | by boy | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out cot=Destination by himself=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **fall** | past | Texas | | | | | nearly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | past | boy's dad | Texas | | | time | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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): 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: [A new baby, looking after siblings and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/16/) - next →: [A new baby, looking after siblings and…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/)