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title: There was a trip to the minor injuries unit, a mum who didn't speak… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a trip to the minor injuries unit, a mum who didn't speak to Noah for the whole car journey, and no console for a month. Who acts: trip, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Copying game moves on a little brother» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 4

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There was a trip to the minor injuries unit, a mum who didn't speak to Noah for the whole car journey, and no console for a month.

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**Who acts:** trip, mum · **What happens:** be, not speak · **To what, where:** Noah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying game moves on a little brother» 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 (trip, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson:4
# text = There was a trip to the minor injuries unit, a mum who didn't speak to Noah for the whole car journey, and no console for a month.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.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
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **be** | past | a trip to the injuries unit and no console for a month |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past · do-support | a mum |  | Noah |  |  | for the whole car journey | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to noah=Co-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:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson:4`.

**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. **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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