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title: Zara asked why a cartoon game with blood was 16 when a film with blo… — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara asked why a cartoon game with blood was 16 when a film with blood was 12. Who acts: Zara, cartoon game, film. A sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 14

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Zara asked why a cartoon game with blood was 16 when a film with blood was 12.

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**Who acts:** Zara, cartoon game, film · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** 16, 12 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» 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 (Zara, cartoon game, film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:14
# text = Zara asked why a cartoon game with blood was 16 when a film with blood was 12.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.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	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	ccomp	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Zara |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a cartoon game with blood | 16 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a film with blood | 12 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:14`.

**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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