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title: Giggling, kicking the pew, playing on a phone or running up the aisl… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics
description: Giggling, kicking the pew, playing on a phone or running up the aisle spoils it for others, and can even be dangerous near candles. Who acts: Giggling. A sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 12

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Giggling, kicking the pew, playing on a phone or running up the aisle spoils it for others, and can even be dangerous near candles.

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**Who acts:** Giggling · **What happens:** kick, play, run up, spoil, be · **To what, where:** pew, phone, aisle, candles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (Giggling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:12
# text = Giggling, kicking the pew, playing on a phone or running up the aisle spoils it for others, and can even be dangerous near candles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Giggling	giggling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pew	pew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	aisle	aisle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
26	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
27	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **kick** | gerund | Giggling *not said here* | the pew |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pew=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Giggling *not said here* |  |  | a phone |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run up** | gerund | Giggling *not said here* | the aisle |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spoil** | present | Giggling | pew |  |  |  | for others | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | can | Giggling *not said here* |  |  | candles |  | dangerous *property* | 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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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