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title: What changed was that he had told people, walked with friends, and f… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics
description: What changed was that he had told people, walked with friends, and found out that the boys at the corner were just bored teenagers waiting for a bus. Who acts: stomach, boys, bored teenagers. A sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# What everyone learned about fights, sentence 2

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What changed was that he had told people, walked with friends, and found out that the boys at the corner were just bored teenagers waiting for a bus.

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**Who acts:** stomach, boys, bored teenagers · **What happens:** change, tell, walk, find out, be, wait · **To what, where:** people, bored teenagers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» 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 (stomach, boys, bored teenagers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:2
# text = What changed was that he had told people, walked with friends, and found out that the boys at the corner were just bored teenagers waiting for a bus.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 395-what-everyone-learned.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	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	iobj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	ccomp	_	_
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **change** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | stomach |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 3 | **walk** | past | stomach *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with friends | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find out** | past | stomach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the boys at the corner | bored teenagers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wait** | gerund | bored teenagers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a bus | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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.

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