--- title: Then he did something clever: he taught Ruby two real moves. — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Then he did something clever: he taught Ruby two real moves. Who acts: Noah. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 7 Then he did something clever: he taught Ruby two real moves. **Who acts:** Noah · **What happens:** do, teach · **To what, where:** something, two real moves, Ruby 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 (Noah), 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:7 # text = Then he did something clever: he taught Ruby two real moves. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Noah | something | | | then | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Noah | two real moves | Ruby | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient move=Topic | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/6/) - next →: [Sore losers and button-mashers, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/)