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title: Ruby went to her grandma's in the countryside, where the game would… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby went to her grandma's in the countryside, where the game would not even load, so she played cards with grandma instead and discovered grandma had the best poker face in the county. Who acts: Ruby, game, grandma. A sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» of the everyday course
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# Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi, sentence 18

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Ruby went to her grandma's in the countryside, where the game would not even load, so she played cards with grandma instead and discovered grandma had the best poker face in the county.

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**Who acts:** Ruby, game, grandma · **What happens:** go, not load, play, discover, have · **To what, where:** countryside, cards, best poker face, county

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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 (Ruby, game, grandma), 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:18
# text = Ruby went to her grandma's in the countryside, where the game would not even load, so she played cards with grandma instead and discovered grandma had the best poker face in the county.
# 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): no change
1	Ruby	ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	load	load	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
32	poker	poker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | Ruby |  |  | the countryside |  | to Ruby's grandma | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grandma=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **load** | would | the game |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** | past | game | cards |  |  |  | with grandma; instead *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent card=Theme with grandma=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **discover** | past | game *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | past | grandma | the best poker face |  | the county |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |

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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:18`.

**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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