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title: Another time, when Lily's friends cheered at a playground fight, Lil… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics
description: Another time, when Lily's friends cheered at a playground fight, Lily stayed quiet and would not join in. Who acts: friends, Lily. A sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 10

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Another time, when Lily's friends cheered at a playground fight, Lily stayed quiet and would not join in.

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**Who acts:** friends, Lily · **What happens:** cheer, stay, not join in · **To what, where:** playground fight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (friends, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:10
# text = Another time, when Lily's friends cheered at a playground fight, Lily stayed quiet and would not join in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.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	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **cheer** | past | Lily's friends |  |  | a playground fight |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stay** | past | Lily |  |  |  | time | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **join in** | would | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:10`.

**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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