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title: Kieran joined the cadets, where he learned rules, teamwork and how t… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran joined the cadets, where he learned rules, teamwork and how to march in a straight line, which he claims is harder than it looks. Who acts: Kieran, rule. A sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# What everyone learned about fights, sentence 8

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Kieran joined the cadets, where he learned rules, teamwork and how to march in a straight line, which he claims is harder than it looks.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, rule · **What happens:** join, learn, march, claim, be, look · **To what, where:** cadets, rules, straight line · **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 (Kieran, rule), 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:8
# text = Kieran joined the cadets, where he learned rules, teamwork and how to march in a straight line, which he claims is harder than it looks.
# 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	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cadets	cadet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	ccomp	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **join** | past | Kieran | the cadets |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadet=Patient |
| 2 | **learn** | past | Kieran | rules and teamwork |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic |
| 3 | **march** | to-infinitive | Kieran *not said here* |  |  | a straight line |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | present | rule |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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