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title: By lunchtime half the class is saying it. — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: By lunchtime half the class is saying it. Who acts: class. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 1

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By lunchtime half the class is saying it.

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**Who acts:** class · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** lunchtime · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (class), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:1
# text = By lunchtime half the class is saying it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.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 ×2
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | half class | lunchtime |  |  |  | by lunchtime | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2. **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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