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title: Kai shouted «LAG!» every time he lost, even when the game ran as smo… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai shouted «LAG!» every time he lost, even when the game ran as smooth as butter. Who acts: Kai, game. A sentence of the lesson «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi, sentence 6

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Kai shouted «LAG!» every time he lost, even when the game ran as smooth as butter.

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**Who acts:** Kai, game · **What happens:** shout, lose, run · **To what, where:** LAG, time

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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 (Kai, game), 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:6
# text = Kai shouted «LAG!» every time he lost, even when the game ran as smooth as butter.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	LAG	lag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Kai | LAG |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lag=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Kai | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run** | past | the game |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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