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title: Kai kept saying «one more life» and had been on the controller for f… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai kept saying «one more life» and had been on the controller for forty minutes. Who acts: Kai. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 1

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Kai kept saying «one more life» and had been on the controller for forty minutes.

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**Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** keep, say, be · **To what, where:** controller · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Kai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:1
# text = Kai kept saying «one more life» and had been on the controller for forty minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 397-whose-turn-is-it.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	«	«	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
18	.	.	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 | **keep** | past | Kai |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | « one more life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the controller | minute |  | tree rules |

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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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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