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title: Then Theo said he had cried when his real team lost the cup, and Jay… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Theo said he had cried when his real team lost the cup, and Jayden felt less alone. Who acts: Theo, real team, Jayden. A sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 20

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Then Theo said he had cried when his real team lost the cup, and Jayden felt less alone.

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**Who acts:** Theo, real team, Jayden · **What happens:** say, cry, lose, feel · **To what, where:** cup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Theo, real team, Jayden), 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:20
# text = Then Theo said he had cried when his real team lost the cup, and Jayden felt less alone.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
19	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Theo |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · perfect | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lose** | past | Theo's real team | the cup |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Jayden |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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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**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:20`.

**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. **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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