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title: The fourth time the school called Jake's dad in, Dad said in the car… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics
description: The fourth time the school called Jake's dad in, Dad said in the car: «I lost half a day's pay for this.» Jake had never thought that his fights cost his family money. Who acts: school, Dad, Jake, fights. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# Jake and the head teacher, sentence 11

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The fourth time the school called Jake's dad in, Dad said in the car: «I lost half a day's pay for this.» Jake had never thought that his fights cost his family money.

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**Who acts:** school, Dad, Jake, fights, day · **What happens:** call in, say, lose, not think, cost, pay · **To what, where:** fourth time, dad, car, pay, family money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (school, Dad, Jake, fights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:11
# text = The fourth time the school called Jake's dad in, Dad said in the car: «I lost half a day's pay for this.» Jake had never thought that his fights cost his family money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
21	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det:predet
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **call in** *speech: assert* | past | the school | the fourth time *not said here* | Jake's dad |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dad |  |  | the car | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | Dad | half day's pay |  |  |  | for this | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **cost** | past | Jake's fights | Jake's family money |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value |
| 6 | **pay** *in a quote* |  | half day |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **fight** |  | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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