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title: When Jake told him fighting was stupid, Ben said «but you do it», an… — Jake, always in bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: When Jake told him fighting was stupid, Ben said «but you do it», and Jake had no answer. Who acts: Jake, fighting, Ben, you. A sentence of the lesson «Jake, always in bruises» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jake, always in bruises, sentence 19

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When Jake told him fighting was stupid, Ben said «but you do it», and Jake had no answer.

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**Who acts:** Jake, fighting, Ben, you · **What happens:** tell, be, say, do, have · **To what, where:** brother, fighting, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake, always in bruises» 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, fighting, Ben, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:19
# text = When Jake told him fighting was stupid, Ben said «but you do it», and Jake had no answer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 372-jake-always-in-bruises.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jake |  | brother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | fighting |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | you | fighting |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **have** | past | Jake | no answer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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**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, 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.

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