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title: Daniel saw the chat that night and cried; his mum told the school, a… — Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos · tree and pragmatics
description: Daniel saw the chat that night and cried; his mum told the school, and the teacher talked to the whole class. Who acts: Daniel, mum, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos, sentence 2

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Daniel saw the chat that night and cried; his mum told the school, and the teacher talked to the whole class.

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**Who acts:** Daniel, mum, teacher · **What happens:** see, cry, tell, talk · **To what, where:** chat, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» 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 (Daniel, mum, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:2
# text = Daniel saw the chat that night and cried; his mum told the school, and the teacher talked to the whole class.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.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	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
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 | **see** | past | Daniel | the chat |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Daniel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel's mum | the school |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient |
| 4 | **talk** | past | the teacher |  |  |  |  | to the whole class | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to class=Co-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:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:2`.

**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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