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title: And Noah asked his dad for help with long division; they finished ea… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics
description: And Noah asked his dad for help with long division; they finished early and played a family game of Mario Kart, which his dad lost loudly. Who acts: Noah, Games, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Homework first?, sentence 17

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And Noah asked his dad for help with long division; they finished early and played a family game of Mario Kart, which his dad lost loudly.

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**Who acts:** Noah, Games, dad · **What happens:** ask, finish, play, lose · **To what, where:** dad, family game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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 (Noah, Games, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:17
# text = And Noah asked his dad for help with long division; they finished early and played a family game of Mario Kart, which his dad lost loudly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 419-homework-first.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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Mario	Mario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Kart	Kart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Noah |  | Noah's dad |  |  | for help with long division | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Games *= game* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | past | Games *= game* *not said here* | a family game of Mario |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past | Noah's dad | a family game of Mario |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |

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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:419-homework-first.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): 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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