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title: Jake's uncle took him to boxing club, where the first rule on the wa… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake's uncle took him to boxing club, where the first rule on the wall said «no fighting outside the ring — ever», and anyone who broke it was out. Who acts: uncle, first rule. A sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 11

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Jake's uncle took him to boxing club, where the first rule on the wall said «no fighting outside the ring — ever», and anyone who broke it was out.

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**Who acts:** uncle, first rule · **What happens:** take, say, break, be · **To what, where:** Jake, boxing club, fighting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (uncle, first rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:11
# text = Jake's uncle took him to boxing club, where the first rule on the wall said «no fighting outside the ring — ever», and anyone who broke it was out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	boxing	boxing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	«	«	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
21	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	»	»	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	parataxis	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	out	out	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Jake's uncle | Jake |  | boxing club |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to club=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the first rule on the wall | no fighting |  |  |  | outside the ring | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fighting=Topic |
| 3 | **break** | past |  | fighting |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |

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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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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