--- title: Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them. Who acts: Kai, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Taking too much](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/) / 13 # Taking too much, sentence 13 Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them. **Who acts:** Kai, friend · **What happens:** call, want, stop, wear · **To what, where:** new trainers, trainers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:13 # text = Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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 ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 22 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | Kai | Kai's friend's new trainers | | | | ugly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trainer=Recipient | | 2 | **want** | past | Kai | trainers *= trainer* | | | | secretly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | past | Kai's friend | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **wear** | gerund | Kai's friend *not said here* | trainers *= trainer* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | 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:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Taking too much, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/12/) - next →: [Taking too much, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/)