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title: Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys. Who acts: boy, two older boys. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Standing by a friend, sentence 0

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Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys.

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**Who acts:** boy, two older boys · **What happens:** invent, shove · **To what, where:** Scaredy, Freddie, big bins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (boy, two older boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:0
# text = Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Scaredy	Scaredy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	shoved	shove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **invent** | past | the boy | Scaredy and Sam |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scaredy=Result |
| 2 | **shove** | present · passive | two older boys | Freddie |  | the big bins |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into bin=Destination |

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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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:0`.

**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, R8-pos-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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