--- title: Ollie's friend taught him a word he had heard in a game, and Ollie,… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics description: Ollie's friend taught him a word he had heard in a game, and Ollie, feeling very grown-up, tried it out at Sunday dinner. Who acts: friend, Ollie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Ollie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:12 # text = Ollie's friend taught him a word he had heard in a game, and Ollie, feeling very grown-up, tried it out at Sunday dinner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 406-toxic-players-and-swearing.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 ×2 1 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 16 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:xcomp 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 18 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound:prt 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Ollie's friend | a word | Ollie | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient word=Topic | | 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | friend | a word *not said here* | | a game | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 3 | **feel** | gerund | Ollie *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **try out** | past | Ollie | game | | Sunday dinner | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:12`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/11/) - next →: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/)