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title: The next week he said «good game» first. — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics
description: The next week he said «good game» first. Who acts: 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 23

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The next week he said «good game» first.

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**Who acts:** Jayden · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** good game · **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 (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:23
# text = The next week he said «good game» first.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Jayden | good game |  |  | week | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:23`.

**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 ×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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