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title: And Jake, who used to start fights, stepped between two Year 4s and… — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jake, who used to start fights, stepped between two Year 4s and said «oi, pack it in, not worth it» — and because it was Jake, they did. Who acts: Jake, head. 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 it
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# Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 16

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And Jake, who used to start fights, stepped between two Year 4s and said «oi, pack it in, not worth it» — and because it was Jake, they did.

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**Who acts:** Jake, head · **What happens:** use, start, step, say, pack in, be · **To what, where:** fights, two Year 4s, head, Jake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, head), 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:16
# text = And Jake, who used to start fights, stepped between two Year 4s and said «oi, pack it in, not worth it» — and because it was Jake, they did.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	Year	year	X	GW	_	14	compound	_	_
14	4s	4	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pack	pack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **use** | past | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Jake *not said here* | fights |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **step** | past | Jake |  |  | two Year 4s |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between 4=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **pack in** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | head |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | head | Jake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | past | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-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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