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title: Asking a left-out friend what they like, and doing it sometimes, bri… — Left out without a console · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking a left-out friend what they like, and doing it sometimes, brings them back into the group. Who acts: boys. 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 24

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Asking a left-out friend what they like, and doing it sometimes, brings them back into the group.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** ask, like, do, bring · **To what, where:** out friend, friend, boys

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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 (boys), 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:24
# text = Asking a left-out friend what they like, and doing it sometimes, brings them back into the group.
# 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 ×2
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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* | gerund |  |  | a out friend |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 2 | **like** | present | boys *= boy* | a out friend |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | friend |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bring** | present |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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:24`.

**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 ×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/).

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