--- title: Picture Ollie coming down for breakfast to find his goldfish, Captai… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Ollie coming down for breakfast to find his goldfish, Captain, floating on his side at the top of the tank; his dad tells him the truth gently, they say goodbye together, and they bury Captain in the garden. Who acts: you, dad, they. 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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 (you, dad, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:1 # text = Picture Ollie coming down for breakfast to find his goldfish, Captain, floating on his side at the top of the tank; his dad tells him the truth gently, they say goodbye together, and they bury Captain in the garden. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 gently gently ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 35 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 together together ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 41 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ollie | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent ollie=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **come down** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | for breakfast; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Ollie's goldfish | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Topic | | 4 | **float** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | Ollie's side | | at the top of the tank | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Source at top=Trajectory | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Ollie's dad | the truth | goldfish | | | gently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | they | goodbye | | | | together *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | | 7 | **bury** | present | they | Captain | | the garden | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captain=Theme in garden=Destination | 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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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, 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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