--- title: But his mum asked the question that ended the argument: «Then why di… — Just one more game · tree and pragmatics description: But his mum asked the question that ended the argument: «Then why did you start a forty-minute match ten minutes before dinner?» Leo had no answer. Who acts: mum, question, you, Leo. A sentence of the lesson «Just one more game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Just one more game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/) / 10 # Just one more game, sentence 10 But his mum asked the question that ended the argument: «Then why did you start a forty-minute match ten minutes before dinner?» Leo had no answer. **Who acts:** mum, question, you, Leo · **What happens:** ask, end, start, have · **To what, where:** question, argument, minute match, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just one more game» 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 (mum, question, you, Leo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:417-just-one-more-game.lesson:10 # text = But his mum asked the question that ended the argument: «Then why did you start a forty-minute match ten minutes before dinner?» Leo had no answer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 417-just-one-more-game.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 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 23 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 29 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | One more's mum | the question | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **end** | past | the question | the argument | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality argument=Eventuality | | 3 | **start** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | a minute match | | | before dinner; then; minute | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | past | Leo | no answer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | 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. **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:417-just-one-more-game.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Just one more game, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/7/) - next →: [Just one more game, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/)