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title: His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lo… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding. Who acts: grandma, gravy, Ollie. A sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 13

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His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding.

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**Who acts:** grandma, gravy, Ollie · **What happens:** drop, go, lose · **To what, where:** fork, pudding

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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 (grandma, gravy, 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:13
# text = His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding.
# 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): no change
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gravy	gravy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **drop** | past | friend's grandma | grandma's fork |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the gravy |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | Ollie | Ollie's pudding |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Eventuality |

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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:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:13`.

**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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