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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 (Small boys, soot, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:14 # text = Small boys, called climbing boys, were sent up inside chimneys to brush out the soot; it was cruel and dangerous, and a law of 1875 finally stopped it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 inside inside ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 chimneys chimney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 soot soot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 1875 1875 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 30 finally finally ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Small boys *not said here* | climbing boys | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **climb** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **send up** | past · passive | | Small boys | | chimneys | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **brush out** | to-infinitive | | the soot | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soot=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | soot | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | soot *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **stop** | past | a law of 1875 | soot | | | | finally *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | 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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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