--- title: Max heard his parents talking about money and "losing the house", an… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Max heard his parents talking about money and "losing the house", and for two weeks he had tummy aches and couldn't concentrate, lying awake thinking, "Where will we live? Who acts: Max, parents, we. 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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 (Max, parents, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:1 # text = Max heard his parents talking about money and "losing the house", and for two weeks he had tummy aches and couldn't concentrate, lying awake thinking, "Where will we live? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 21 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 concentrate concentrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 30 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 33 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Max | Max's parents | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | Max's parents *not said here* | | | | | about money | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about money=Topic | | 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | gerund | Max's parents *not said here* | the house | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | past | Max | tummy aches | | | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient | | 5 | **not** **concentrate** | could | Max *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lie** | gerund | Max *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Max *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **live** *in a quote* | future | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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