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title: When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an e… — Walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an empty alley; they walked calmly into the newsagent's. Who acts: older boys, mates. A sentence of the lesson «Walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Walking away, sentence 10

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When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an empty alley; they walked calmly into the newsagent's.

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**Who acts:** older boys, mates · **What happens:** follow, not run, walk · **To what, where:** Sam, empty alley, newsagent

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (older boys, mates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:10
# text = When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an empty alley; they walked calmly into the newsagent's.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 371-walking-away.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl
20	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	newsagent	newsagent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **follow** | past | older boys | Sam and Freddie |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sam=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **run** | past · do-support | mates *= mate* |  |  |  |  | into a empty alley *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into alley=Result |
| 3 | **walk** | past | mates *= mate* |  |  |  |  | into the newsagent *result*; calmly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into newsagent=Result |

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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:371-walking-away.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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