--- title: A girl in Sydney did not want to visit her grandma in hospital, and… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney did not want to visit her grandma in hospital, and later wished she had; she wrote her a letter instead and her grandma kept it by the bed. Who acts: girl, grandma. 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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, grandma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:17 # text = A girl in Sydney did not want to visit her grandma in hospital, and later wished she had; she wrote her a letter instead and her grandma kept it by the bed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 17 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 instead instead ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | a girl in Sydney | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl in Sydney *not said here* | girl's grandma | | hospital | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Co-Agent | | 3 | **wish** | past | a girl in Sydney *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | girl | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **write** | past | girl | a letter | Sydney | | | instead *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic | | 6 | **keep** | past | girl's grandma | letter | | | | by the bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by bed=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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/16/) - next →: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/)