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title: Luckily his primary head also wrote that Jake had improved a lot. — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily his primary head also wrote that Jake had improved a lot. Who acts: primary head, 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 every clause.
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 4

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Luckily his primary head also wrote that Jake had improved a lot.

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**Who acts:** primary head, Jake · **What happens:** write, improve · **To what, where:** lot

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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 (primary head, 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:4
# text = Luckily his primary head also wrote that Jake had improved a lot.
# 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **write** | past | Jake's primary head |  |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **improve** | past · perfect | Jake | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:375-what-fights-cost-at-school.lesson:4`.

**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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