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title: Theo, meanwhile, loved his gold badge more than his school report, u… — Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo, meanwhile, loved his gold badge more than his school report, until his mum asked what the badge actually does, and all Theo could say was «it's... gold». Who acts: Theo, mum, badge, all. A sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar, sentence 10

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Theo, meanwhile, loved his gold badge more than his school report, until his mum asked what the badge actually does, and all Theo could say was «it's... gold».

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**Who acts:** Theo, mum, badge, all · **What happens:** love, ask, do, say, be, badge · **To what, where:** gold badge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» 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 (Theo, mum, badge, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.lesson:10
# text = Theo, meanwhile, loved his gold badge more than his school report, until his mum asked what the badge actually does, and all Theo could say was «it's... gold».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
27	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **love** | past | Theo | Theo's gold badge |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer badge=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Theo's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | the badge |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | all |  |  |  |  | gold *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **badge** |  | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | nom badge «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **report** |  | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:407-rage-quitting-and-ranked.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, 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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