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title: But doors that close can open again: Jake's uncle took him to a boxi… — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: But doors that close can open again: Jake's uncle took him to a boxing club where the rule was no fighting outside the ring, ever, and the next year, after a good term, Jake played the pirate and his whole family came. Who acts: doors, uncle, rule, Jake. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 16

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But doors that close can open again: Jake's uncle took him to a boxing club where the rule was no fighting outside the ring, ever, and the next year, after a good term, Jake played the pirate and his whole family came.

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**Who acts:** doors, uncle, rule, Jake, whole family · **What happens:** close, open, take, be, play, come · **To what, where:** Jake, boxing club, fighting, 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 (doors, uncle, rule, 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:16
# text = But doors that close can open again: Jake's uncle took him to a boxing club where the rule was no fighting outside the ring, ever, and the next year, after a good term, Jake played the pirate and his whole family came.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	parataxis	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	boxing	boxing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
40	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present | doors |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | can | doors |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Jake's uncle | Jake |  | a boxing club and the next year | after a good term |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to club=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the rule | no fighting |  |  | ever | outside the ring | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | past | Jake | the pirate |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | Jake's whole family |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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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