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title: And Ruby was too nervous to play ranked at all, until she tried one… — Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ruby was too nervous to play ranked at all, until she tried one ranked game with two friends sitting beside her. Who acts: Ruby, two friends. A sentence of the lesson «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar, sentence 25

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And Ruby was too nervous to play ranked at all, until she tried one ranked game with two friends sitting beside her.

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**Who acts:** Ruby, two friends · **What happens:** be, play, rank, try, sit · **To what, where:** all, one ranked game

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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 (Ruby, two friends), 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:25
# text = And Ruby was too nervous to play ranked at all, until she tried one ranked game with two friends sitting beside her.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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** | past | Ruby |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Ruby *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rank** | participle | Ruby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | past | Ruby | one ranked game |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
| 5 | **rank** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sit** | gerund | two friends |  |  |  |  | beside Ruby | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |

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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:25`.

**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): 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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