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title: A boy in Leeds laughed at a classmate's Eid clothes; the classmate w… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds laughed at a classmate's Eid clothes; the classmate went home in tears and did not want to come to school the next day. Who acts: boy, classmate. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 18

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A boy in Leeds laughed at a classmate's Eid clothes; the classmate went home in tears and did not want to come to school the next day.

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**Who acts:** boy, classmate · **What happens:** laugh, go, not want, come · **To what, where:** Eid clothes, tears, school

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, classmate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:18
# text = A boy in Leeds laughed at a classmate's Eid clothes; the classmate went home in tears and did not want to come to school the next day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | a boy in Leeds |  |  | a classmate's Eid clothes |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | the classmate |  |  | tears |  | home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tear=Location |
| 3 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | the classmate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the classmate *not said here* |  |  | school | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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