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title: Jake was banned from after-school football for a term and not allowe… — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake was banned from after-school football for a term and not allowed in the school play, though secretly he wanted to be the pirate. Who acts: Jake. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 14

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Jake was banned from after-school football for a term and not allowed in the school play, though secretly he wanted to be the pirate.

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**Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** ban, not allow, want, be · **To what, where:** Jake, school football, school play, pirate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at school» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:375-what-fights-cost-at-school.lesson:14
# text = Jake was banned from after-school football for a term and not allowed in the school play, though secretly he wanted to be the pirate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 375-what-fights-cost-at-school.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): no change
1	Jake	jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ban** | past · passive |  | Jake |  | school football |  | for a term | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from football=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | participle |  |  |  | the school play |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **want** | past | Jake |  |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jake *not said here* | the pirate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): no change. **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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