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title: Behind the mobile classroom, Jake and a Station Road boy squared up,… — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind the mobile classroom, Jake and a Station Road boy squared up, and within a minute a crowd had formed, chanting «fight, fight, fight». Who acts: Jake, crowd. A sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 0

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Behind the mobile classroom, Jake and a Station Road boy squared up, and within a minute a crowd had formed, chanting «fight, fight, fight».

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**Who acts:** Jake, crowd · **What happens:** square up, form, chant · **To what, where:** mobile classroom, fight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (Jake, crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:393-bystanders.lesson:0
# text = Behind the mobile classroom, Jake and a Station Road boy squared up, and within a minute a crowd had formed, chanting «fight, fight, fight».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 393-bystanders.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	squared	square	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
26	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **square up** | past | Jake and a Road boy |  |  | the mobile classroom |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **form** | past · perfect | a crowd |  |  |  | minute |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chant** | gerund | a crowd *not said here* | fight and fight and fight |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Topic |

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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:393-bystanders.lesson:0`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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