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title: Why are you so useless?» It stopped being fun. — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are you so useless?» It stopped being fun. Who acts: you, captain. 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 17

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Why are you so useless?» It stopped being fun.

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**Who acts:** you, captain · **What happens:** be, stop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, captain), 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:17
# text = Why are you so useless?» It stopped being fun.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | past | captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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