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title: When Jake grabs little Ollie's football, Sam says, in front of every… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics
description: When Jake grabs little Ollie's football, Sam says, in front of everyone: «Leave Ollie alone, he's only in Year 3.» His knees shake. Who acts: Jake, Sam, knees. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 5

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When Jake grabs little Ollie's football, Sam says, in front of everyone: «Leave Ollie alone, he's only in Year 3.» His knees shake.

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**Who acts:** Jake, Sam, knees · **What happens:** grab, say, leave, be, shake · **To what, where:** football, front, Ollie, 3 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (Jake, Sam, knees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:5
# text = When Jake grabs little Ollie's football, Sam says, in front of everyone: «Leave Ollie alone, he's only in Year 3.» His knees shake.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
3	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
27	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	ccomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **grab** | present | Jake | little Ollie's football |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sam |  |  | front of everyone |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Ollie |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ollie=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sam |  |  | 3 | Year |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | present | Sam's knees |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:5`.

**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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