--- title: A girl in Texas moved to a new town and did not tell anyone at the n… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas moved to a new town and did not tell anyone at the new school she was struggling; she ate lunch alone for months until a teacher noticed and set her up with a buddy. Who acts: girl, teacher. 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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, teacher), 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:21 # text = A girl in Texas moved to a new town and did not tell anyone at the new school she was struggling; she ate lunch alone for months until a teacher noticed and set her up with a buddy. # 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 ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl:relcl 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 alone alone ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:mark 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 buddy buddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **move** | past | a girl in Texas | | | a new town | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to town=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | a girl in Texas *not said here* | anyone | | the new school | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **struggle** | past · progressive | girl | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | past | girl | lunch | | | month | alone *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient | | 5 | **notice** | past | a teacher | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **set up** | past | a teacher *not said here* | teacher | | | | with a buddy | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with buddy=Instrument | 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:21`. **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 ×4. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/20/) - next →: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/)