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title: Sam was told to be the «lookout» for a street fight — and spent the… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam was told to be the «lookout» for a street fight — and spent the whole evening feeling sick. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Our street against theirs, sentence 3

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Sam was told to be the «lookout» for a street fight — and spent the whole evening feeling sick.

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**Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** tell, be, spend, feel · **To what, where:** Sam, lookout · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:3
# text = Sam was told to be the «lookout» for a street fight — and spent the whole evening feeling sick.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Sam |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | the lookout |  |  |  | for a street fight | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** | past |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:3`.

**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.

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

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