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title: And then there was Noah's team captain, a boy from the year above wh… — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics
description: And then there was Noah's team captain, a boy from the year above who shouted orders like a general: «You, there! Who acts: team captain, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teams and voice chat, sentence 16

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And then there was Noah's team captain, a boy from the year above who shouted orders like a general: «You, there!

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**Who acts:** team captain, boy · **What happens:** be, shout · **To what, where:** orders

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» 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 (team captain, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:16
# text = And then there was Noah's team captain, a boy from the year above who shouted orders like a general: «You, there!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 405-teams-and-voice-chat.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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:cc
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
3	there	there	PRON	EX	_	4	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:expl
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
5	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	above	above	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	appos	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Noah's team captain |  |  | there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | a boy from the year | orders |  |  |  | like a general | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Topic |

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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:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:16`.

**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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×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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