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title: Then Ruby asked Zara to explain her favourite board game. — Left out without a console · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Ruby asked Zara to explain her favourite board game. Who acts: Ruby. 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 2

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Then Ruby asked Zara to explain her favourite board game.

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**Who acts:** Ruby · **What happens:** ask, explain · **To what, where:** Zara, favourite board game

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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), 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:2
# text = Then Ruby asked Zara to explain her favourite board game.
# 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): no change
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ruby |  | Zara |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent zara=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ruby *not said here* | Zara's favourite board game |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: 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:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:2`.

**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/).

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