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title: When Zara from next door knocked to join in, Theo said, «Nah, it's f… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: When Zara from next door knocked to join in, Theo said, «Nah, it's for boys.» Zara rolled her eyes: «I beat you at every racing game you own, Theo.» Who acts: Zara, Theo, door, Nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 8

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When Zara from next door knocked to join in, Theo said, «Nah, it's for boys.» Zara rolled her eyes: «I beat you at every racing game you own, Theo.»

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**Who acts:** Zara, Theo, door, Nobody, you · **What happens:** knock, join in, say, be, roll, beat · **To what, where:** eyes, you, racing game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Zara, Theo, door, Nobody), 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:8
# text = When Zara from next door knocked to join in, Theo said, «Nah, it's for boys.» Zara rolled her eyes: «I beat you at every racing game you own, Theo.»
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	20	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
39	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	vocative	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | Zara from next door |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join in** | to-infinitive | Zara from next door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | door |  |  |  |  | for boys | tree rules |
| 5 | **roll** | past | Zara | Zara's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **beat** *in a quote* | present | Nobody | you |  | every racing game |  | Theo *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme |
| 7 | **own** *in a quote* | present | you | every racing game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot game=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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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