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title: The boys groaned when they found out — and then had a brilliant afte… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: The boys groaned when they found out — and then had a brilliant afternoon on a racing game and a building game anyway. Who acts: boys. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 18

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The boys groaned when they found out — and then had a brilliant afternoon on a racing game and a building game anyway.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** groan, find out, have · **To what, where:** racing game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:18
# text = The boys groaned when they found out — and then had a brilliant afternoon on a racing game and a building game anyway.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **groan** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find out** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the boys *not said here* |  |  | a racing game and a building game | then; afternoon | anyway *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:18`.

**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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