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title: Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mi… — Sweets, change and a friend's toy · tree and pragmatics
description: Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mix because nobody was watching. Who acts: Harry, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 1

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Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mix because nobody was watching.

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**Who acts:** Harry, nobody · **What happens:** grab, watch · **To what, where:** handful

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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 (Harry, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:1
# text = Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mix because nobody was watching.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.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
1	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
11	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **grab** | past | Harry in Manchester | a handful of sweets from pick mix |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | past · progressive | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.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. **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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