--- title: When he finally told Mum what he'd heard, she explained they had a p… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: When he finally told Mum what he'd heard, she explained they had a plan and he would be safe, and the tummy aches stopped; children often hear a bit of a grown-up worry and imagine the whole disaster. Who acts: mind, she, things, tummy aches. 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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 (mind, she, things, tummy aches), 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:3 # text = When he finally told Mum what he'd heard, she explained they had a plan and he would be safe, and the tummy aches stopped; children often hear a bit of a grown-up worry and imagine the whole disaster. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 finally finally ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin 9 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 25 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | mind | | Mum | | | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | mind | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | she | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past | things *= thing* | a plan | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 5 | **is** | would | mind | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | past | the tummy aches | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **hear** | present | children | a bit of a grown up worry | | | | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | | 8 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **imagine** | infinitive | children *not said here* | the whole disaster | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot disaster=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:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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