--- title: Kai said «the controller is broken» every time he lost, so Mia swapp… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Kai said «the controller is broken» every time he lost, so Mia swapped controllers with him; he lost again and everyone, even Kai, laughed. Who acts: Kai, Mia, everyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai, Mia, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:11 # text = Kai said «the controller is broken» every time he lost, so Mia swapped controllers with him; he lost again and everyone, even Kai, laughed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.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 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 controller controller NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 controllers controller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kai | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **break** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the controller | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | past | Kai | every time *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality | | 4 | **swap** | past | Mia | controllers | | | | with Kai | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent controller=Theme with he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **lose** | past | Mia | | | | again | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | past | everyone | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:11`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/10/) - next →: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/)