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title: When he loses, he shouts made-up words: «FISHCAKES!» and «BUBBLEBUM!… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: When he loses, he shouts made-up words: «FISHCAKES!» and «BUBBLEBUM!» The whole squad copied him, then his mum started saying «fishcakes» when she burned the toast. Who acts: Noah, whole squad, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 16

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When he loses, he shouts made-up words: «FISHCAKES!» and «BUBBLEBUM!» The whole squad copied him, then his mum started saying «fishcakes» when she burned the toast.

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**Who acts:** Noah, whole squad, mum · **What happens:** lose, shout, make up, copy, start, say · **To what, where:** made words, Noah, fishcakes, toast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Noah, whole squad, mum), 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:16
# text = When he loses, he shouts made-up words: «FISHCAKES!» and «BUBBLEBUM!» The whole squad copied him, then his mum started saying «fishcakes» when she burned the toast.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=7:compound
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	FISHCAKES	fishcake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	BUBBLEBUM	BUBBLEBUM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	squad	squad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	fishcakes	fishcake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obl
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Noah |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Noah | made words |  |  |  | FISHCAKES and BUBBLEBUM *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **copy** | past | the whole squad | Noah |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **start** | past | Noah's mum |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Noah's mum *not said here* | fishcakes |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fishcake=Topic |
| 7 | **burn** | past | mum | the toast |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toast=Theme |

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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: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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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