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title: It was the first real talk they ever had. — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the first real talk they ever had. Who acts: knee, tricks. A sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 14

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It was the first real talk they ever had.

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**Who acts:** knee, tricks · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** first real talk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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 (knee, tricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:14
# text = It was the first real talk they ever had.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | past | knee | the first real talk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | tricks *= trick* | the first real talk *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:14`.

**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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