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title: Fortnite or Roblox?» The class laughed, and Noah decided to play les… — Sleep and school mornings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortnite or Roblox?» The class laughed, and Noah decided to play less on school nights. Who acts: class, Noah. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep and school mornings, sentence 11

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Fortnite or Roblox?» The class laughed, and Noah decided to play less on school nights.

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**Who acts:** class, Noah · **What happens:** laugh, decide, play

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» 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 (class, Noah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:11
# text = Fortnite or Roblox?» The class laughed, and Noah decided to play less on school nights.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 418-sleep-and-school-mornings.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	Fortnite	Fortnite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Roblox	Roblox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | the class |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** *in a quote* | past | Noah |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **play** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Noah *not said here* |  |  |  | night | less *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:11`.

**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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