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title: Ruby could only play on Saturdays, so Mia saved the best challenge f… — Left out without a console · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby could only play on Saturdays, so Mia saved the best challenge for Saturdays. Who acts: Ruby, Mia. 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.
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# Left out without a console, sentence 16

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Ruby could only play on Saturdays, so Mia saved the best challenge for Saturdays.

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**Who acts:** Ruby, Mia · **What happens:** play, save · **To what, where:** best challenge

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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 (Ruby, Mia), 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:16
# text = Ruby could only play on Saturdays, so Mia saved the best challenge for Saturdays.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ruby	ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | could | Ruby |  |  |  | saturday |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | past | Mia | the best challenge |  |  | saturday |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |

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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:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:16`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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