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title: Grandma asked for a go, held the controller upside down, won one rac… — Mia gets the newest console · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma asked for a go, held the controller upside down, won one race completely by accident and talked about it at every family dinner for a month. Who acts: Grandma. A sentence of the lesson «Mia gets the newest console» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Mia gets the newest console, sentence 24

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Grandma asked for a go, held the controller upside down, won one race completely by accident and talked about it at every family dinner for a month.

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**Who acts:** Grandma · **What happens:** ask, hold, win, talk · **To what, where:** controller, one race, family dinner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mia gets the newest console» 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 (Grandma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:396-mia-gets-the-newest-console.lesson:24
# text = Grandma asked for a go, held the controller upside down, won one race completely by accident and talked about it at every family dinner for a month.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 396-mia-gets-the-newest-console.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advmod	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Grandma |  |  |  |  | for a go | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Grandma *not said here* | the controller |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controller=Theme |
| 3 | **win** | past | Grandma *not said here* | one race |  |  |  | by accident; completely *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 4 | **talk** | past | Grandma *not said here* |  |  | every family dinner for a month |  | about accident | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=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:396-mia-gets-the-newest-console.lesson:24`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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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