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title: At home Jake's little brother Alfie took one look at the new bruise… — What fights cost at home · tree and pragmatics
description: At home Jake's little brother Alfie took one look at the new bruise on Jake's cheek and burst into tears, the way he did every time. Who acts: little brother, Jake. 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 pr
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# What fights cost at home, sentence 2

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At home Jake's little brother Alfie took one look at the new bruise on Jake's cheek and burst into tears, the way he did every time.

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**Who acts:** little brother, Jake · **What happens:** take, burst, do · **To what, where:** one look, home, way, tears

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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 (little brother, Jake), 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:2
# text = At home Jake's little brother Alfie took one look at the new bruise on Jake's cheek and burst into tears, the way he did every time.
# 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 ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **take** | past | Jake's little brother | one look |  | home |  | at the new bruise on Jake's cheek | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at home=Asset |
| 2 | **burst** | past | Jake's little brother *not said here* | the way |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Jake | the way *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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. **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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