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title: A girl in Florida skipped a lesson to hang out behind the gym; the s… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Florida skipped a lesson to hang out behind the gym; the school could not find her, parents were called, and police were about to search. Who acts: girl, school, police. A sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 19

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A girl in Florida skipped a lesson to hang out behind the gym; the school could not find her, parents were called, and police were about to search.

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**Who acts:** girl, school, police · **What happens:** skip, hang out, not find, call, be, search · **To what, where:** lesson, gym, girl, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (girl, school, police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:19
# text = A girl in Florida skipped a lesson to hang out behind the gym; the school could not find her, parents were called, and police were about to search.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gym	gym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **skip** | past | a girl in Florida | a lesson |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Agent |
| 2 | **hang out** | to-infinitive | a girl in Florida *not said here* | a lesson *not said here* |  | the gym |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind gym=Location |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | the school | girl |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | parents |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | police |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **search** | to-infinitive | police *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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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