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title: Ollie tried a shortcut: he secretly downloaded the free demo of an o… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie tried a shortcut: he secretly downloaded the free demo of an older game on the family console. Who acts: Ollie. A sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parents' rules for big games, sentence 21

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Ollie tried a shortcut: he secretly downloaded the free demo of an older game on the family console.

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**Who acts:** Ollie · **What happens:** try, download, demo · **To what, where:** shortcut, free demo, older game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 (Ollie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:21
# text = Ollie tried a shortcut: he secretly downloaded the free demo of an older game on the family console.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	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	shortcut	shortcut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	downloaded	download	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	demo	demo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **try** | past | Ollie | a shortcut |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shortcut=Eventuality |
| 2 | **download** | past | Ollie | the free demo of a older game on the family console |  |  |  | secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **demo** |  |  | a older game on the family console |  |  |  |  | nom demo «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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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