--- title: A boy in Leeds whose dog died was told by a friend not to cry; he he… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds whose dog died was told by a friend not to cry; he held it in for weeks and got stomach aches and bad dreams until he talked with his mum and cried. Who acts: dog, friend, boy. 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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 (dog, friend, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:20 # text = A boy in Leeds whose dog died was told by a friend not to cry; he held it in for weeks and got stomach aches and bad dreams until he talked with his mum and cried. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 097-moving-change-and-grief.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 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **die** | past | dog | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | a friend | a boy in Leeds | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold in** | past | boy | fun | | | week | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | boy *not said here* | stomach aches and bad dreams | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus | | 6 | **talk** | past | boy | | | | | with boy's mum | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mum=Co-Agent | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/18/) - next →: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/)