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title: Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove… — What fights cost at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove Jake home without saying a word. Who acts: Dad, day. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at home» 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 home, sentence 1

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Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove Jake home without saying a word.

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**Who acts:** Dad, day · **What happens:** have, leave, lose, drive, say, shift · **To what, where:** shift, pay, Jake, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home.lesson:1
# text = Dad had to leave his shift halfway, lost half a day's pay, and drove Jake home without saying a word.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 376-what-fights-cost-at-home.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 ×2
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det:predet
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **have** | past | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Dad *not said here* | dad's shift |  |  |  | halfway *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shift=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | Dad *not said here* | half day's pay |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality |
| 4 | **drive** | past | Dad *not said here* | Jake |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Dad *not said here* | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 6 | **shift** |  | dad |  |  |  |  |  | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **pay** |  | half day |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession 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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**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:376-what-fights-cost-at-home.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2. **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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