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title: Nobody punished her — losing the bike was the punishment. — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody punished her — losing the bike was the punishment. Who acts: Nobody, losing. A sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spoiling and losing things, sentence 6

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Nobody punished her — losing the bike was the punishment.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, losing · **What happens:** punish, lose, be · **To what, where:** book, bike, punishment

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» 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, losing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:6
# text = Nobody punished her — losing the bike was the punishment.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	punished	punish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | past | Nobody | book |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  | the bike |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past | losing | the punishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.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): 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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