--- title: Children who move school settle in faster when they tell a teacher o… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics description: Children who move school settle in faster when they tell a teacher or parent if they are finding it hard. Who acts: Children, school. 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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 (Children, school), 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:23 # text = Children who move school settle in faster when they tell a teacher or parent if they are finding it hard. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 settle settle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 obl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Children | school | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme | | 2 | **settle** | present | Children | | | faster | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fast=Location | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | school | | a teacher or parent | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | school | child | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:23`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/22/) - next →: [Friendship troubles, being left out an…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/)