--- title: Ruby had never played; she just pressed every button as fast as she… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby had never played; she just pressed every button as fast as she could, and she won. Who acts: Ruby. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sore losers and button-mashers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/) / 5 # Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 5 Ruby had never played; she just pressed every button as fast as she could, and she won. **Who acts:** Ruby · **What happens:** not play, press, win · **To what, where:** button 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 (Ruby), 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:5 # text = Ruby had never played; she just pressed every button as fast as she could, and she won. # 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): no change 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 fast fast ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **play** | past · perfect | Ruby | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **press** | past | Ruby | every button | | | | fast *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | | 3 | **win** | past | Ruby | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «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:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/4/) - next →: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/)