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title: Nobody told him off — there was nobody to — but when his friends pla… — Promises to friends and to yourself · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody told him off — there was nobody to — but when his friends played with their new balls, he felt silly. Who acts: Nobody, friends, Josh. A sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 6

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Nobody told him off — there was nobody to — but when his friends played with their new balls, he felt silly.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, friends, Josh · **What happens:** tell off, be, play, feel · **To what, where:** Josh

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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 (Nobody, friends, Josh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.lesson:6
# text = Nobody told him off — there was nobody to — but when his friends played with their new balls, he felt silly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
23	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | past | Nobody |  | Josh |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **be** | past | nobody |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | Josh's friends |  |  |  |  | with sweets's new balls | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Josh |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.lesson:6`.

**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, 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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