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title: She was thrilled for ten minutes, then worked it out, burst into tea… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: She was thrilled for ten minutes, then worked it out, burst into tears, and Kai's mum made him give her a real turn. Who acts: turn, mum, 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 13

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She was thrilled for ten minutes, then worked it out, burst into tears, and Kai's mum made him give her a real turn.

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**Who acts:** turn, mum, Kai · **What happens:** be, work out, burst, make, give · **To what, where:** party, tears, Kai, real turn, turn

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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 (turn, mum, 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:13
# text = She was thrilled for ten minutes, then worked it out, burst into tears, and Kai's mum made him give her a real turn.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
13	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **is** | past | turn |  |  |  | minute | thrilled *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work out** | past | turn *not said here* | party |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **burst** | past | turn *not said here* |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | Kai's mum | Kai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | Kai *not said here* | a real turn | turn |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient turn=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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**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:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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