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title: Noah's tablet got so hot from a long game that it switched itself of… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: Noah's tablet got so hot from a long game that it switched itself off; it was protecting itself, and his dad said tablet and boy both needed a break. Who acts: tablet, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi, sentence 17

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Noah's tablet got so hot from a long game that it switched itself off; it was protecting itself, and his dad said tablet and boy both needed a break.

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**Who acts:** tablet, dad · **What happens:** get, switch off, protect, say, need · **To what, where:** tablet, break · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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 (tablet, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:17
# text = Noah's tablet got so hot from a long game that it switched itself off; it was protecting itself, and his dad said tablet and boy both needed a break.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc:preconj	_	_
30	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **get** | past | Noah's tablet |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **switch off** | past | tablet | tablet |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 3 | **protect** | past · progressive | tablet | tablet |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Noah's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **need** | past | tablet and boy | a break |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot break=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:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi.lesson:17`.

**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, R8-pos-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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