--- title: Zara's family could not afford any console, so she said she «just di… — Left out without a console · tree and pragmatics description: Zara's family could not afford any console, so she said she «just didn't like games» and stared at her sandwich. Who acts: family. A sentence of the lesson «Left out without a console» 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/399-left-out-without-a-console/1/) [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/) / [Left out without a console](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/) / 1 # Left out without a console, sentence 1 Zara's family could not afford any console, so she said she «just didn't like games» and stared at her sandwich. **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** not afford, say, not like, stare · **To what, where:** console, games · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Left out without a console» 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 (family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:1 # text = Zara's family could not afford any console, so she said she «just didn't like games» and stared at her sandwich. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 399-left-out-without-a-console.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 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 console console NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 15 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 19 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sandwich sandwich NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** **afford** | could | Zara's family | any console | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | family | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | past · do-support | family | games | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme | | 4 | **stare** | past | family *not said here* | | | | | at family's sandwich | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sandwich=Theme | 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:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:1`. **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: [Left out without a console, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/0/) - next →: [Left out without a console, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/)