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title: Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the… — Leaving someone out · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh. Who acts: Kai, clothes, others. A sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leaving someone out, sentence 0

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Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh.

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**Who acts:** Kai, clothes, others · **What happens:** tease, be, make, laugh · **To what, where:** boy, others

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (Kai, clothes, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:0
# text = Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 347-leaving-someone-out.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): no change
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Perth	Perth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	teased	tease	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	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **tease** | past | Kai in Perth | a boy |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Kai's clothes |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Kai in Perth *not said here* | the others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | the others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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