--- title: Theo's phone buzzed every two minutes with his friends arguing about… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: Theo's phone buzzed every two minutes with his friends arguing about the GTA 6 trailer, a game rated 18 that none of them was even allowed to play. Who acts: phone, friends, game, none. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (phone, friends, game, none), 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:9 # text = Theo's phone buzzed every two minutes with his friends arguing about the GTA 6 trailer, a game rated 18 that none of them was even allowed to play. # 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 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 buzzed buzz VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 GTA GTA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 compound _ _ 16 trailer trailer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 rated rate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 23 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . 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 | **buzz** | past | Theo's phone | | | | minute | with phone's friends | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with friend=Theme | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | phone's friends *not said here* | | | | | about the GTA 6 trailer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about trailer=Topic | | 3 | **rate** | participle | a game *not said here* | 18 | | | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 18=Theme | | 4 | **allow** | past · passive | | none | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | that | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | 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:419-homework-first.lesson:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Homework first?, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/8/) - next →: [Homework first?, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)