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title: It wasn't: he spent the days doing schoolwork at his gran's, missed… — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: It wasn't: he spent the days doing schoolwork at his gran's, missed the planning for the class trip, and came back behind in maths. 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 eve
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 2

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It wasn't: he spent the days doing schoolwork at his gran's, missed the planning for the class trip, and came back behind in maths.

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**Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** spend, do, miss, come back · **To what, where:** schoolwork, gran, planning, maths

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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:2
# text = It wasn't: he spent the days doing schoolwork at his gran's, missed the planning for the class trip, and came back behind in maths.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	schoolwork	schoolwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spend** | past | Jake |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | Jake *not said here* | schoolwork |  | Jake's gran |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schoolwork=Eventuality |
| 3 | **miss** | past | Jake *not said here* | the planning |  |  |  | for the class trip | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer planning=Stimulus for trip=Attribute |
| 4 | **come back** | past | Jake *not said here* |  |  | maths |  | behind *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in math=Location |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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