--- title: A boy in Colorado whose dog has died makes a drawing of the dog chas… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Colorado whose dog has died makes a drawing of the dog chasing snow, puts it on the fridge, and when he misses her he looks at it and tells his mum one of his favourite memories. Who acts: dog, 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, 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:4 # text = A boy in Colorado whose dog has died makes a drawing of the dog chasing snow, puts it on the fridge, and when he misses her he looks at it and tells his mum one of his favourite memories. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Colorado Colorado 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 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 drawing drawing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 15 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 iobj _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 42 . . 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** | present · perfect | dog | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **make** | present | a boy in Colorado | a drawing the dog | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Product | | 3 | **chase** | gerund | the dog *not said here* | snow | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme | | 4 | **put** | present | a boy in Colorado *not said here* | snow | | the fridge | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fridge=Destination | | 5 | **miss** | present | boy | dog | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus | | 6 | **look** | present | boy | | | | | at fridge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | boy *not said here* | one of boy's favourite memories | boy's mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient one=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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/3/) - next →: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/)