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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 boats, someone, Mole, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:18 # text = Small boats tip over easily if someone stands up or lunges to one side, as the Mole did when he grabbed the sculls; you step into the middle, keep low, sit still and wear a life jacket. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tip tip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 5 easily easily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 lunges lunge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sculls scull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 step step VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 jacket jacket NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **tip over** | present | Small boats | | | | | easily, over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lunge** | present | someone *not said here* | | | | | to one side | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | past | the Mole | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grab** | past | Mole | the sculls | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=Theme | | 6 | **step** | present | you | | | the middle | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into middle=Destination | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **wear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a life jacket | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=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:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:18`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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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