--- title: Noah's dad asked him to watch his little sister in the park while he… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Noah's dad asked him to watch his little sister in the park while he took a call; Noah played on his phone, she fell off the climbing frame and broke her arm, and for weeks the sight of her cast made him feel sick: "If I'd been watching, she wouldn't have fallen." 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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 (dad, Noah, person, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:1 # text = Noah's dad asked him to watch his little sister in the park while he took a call; Noah played on his phone, she fell off the climbing frame and broke her arm, and for weeks the sight of her cast made him feel sick: "If I'd been watching, she wouldn't have fallen." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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): no change 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 off off ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 48 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 49 : : PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ _ 51 If if SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 52 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 53 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 55 aux _ _ 55 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 61 advcl _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 57 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 58 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 59 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 61 advmod _ _ 60 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 61 aux _ _ 61 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Noah's dad | | Noah | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Noah's dad *not said here* | dad's little sister | | the park | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | dad | a call | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 4 | **play** | past | Noah | | | Noah's phone | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fall off** | past | person | the climbing frame | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient frame=Extent | | 6 | **break** | past | person *not said here* | person's arm | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient | | 7 | **make** | past | the sight of person's cast | Noah | | | week | | tree rules | | 8 | **feel** | infinitive | Noah *not said here* | | | | | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **watch** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect · progressive | Noah's dad *= dad* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **not** **fall** *in a quote* | would · perfect | person | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **sight** | | | person's cast | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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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