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title: On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!»… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!» at a boy holding a toy dinosaur. Who acts: Alfie, boy. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 6

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On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!» at a boy holding a toy dinosaur.

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**Who acts:** Alfie, boy · **What happens:** stand, bellow, finish, hold · **To what, where:** chair, Alfie, toy dinosaur · **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 (Alfie, boy), 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:6
# text = On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!» at a boy holding a toy dinosaur.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bellowed	bellow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	FINISH	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
14	HIM	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
20	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **stand** | past | Alfie |  |  | a chair | monday | at nursery | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
| 2 | **bellow** | past | Alfie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a boy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **finish** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alfie *not said here* | Alfie |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | a toy dinosaur |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=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:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson:6`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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