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title: Later he admitted he simply did not like scary things. — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics
description: Later he admitted he simply did not like scary things. Who acts: Leo. 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 21

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Later he admitted he simply did not like scary things.

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**Who acts:** Leo · **What happens:** admit, not like · **To what, where:** scary things · **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 (Leo), 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:21
# text = Later he admitted he simply did not like scary things.
# 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	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	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 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | Leo |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Leo | scary things |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:21`.

**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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