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title: And Mia's rule is simple: after an hour of games she goes outside an… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: And Mia's rule is simple: after an hour of games she goes outside and kicks a football about, then comes back with fresh energy. Who acts: rule, back, Mia. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 15

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And Mia's rule is simple: after an hour of games she goes outside and kicks a football about, then comes back with fresh energy.

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**Who acts:** rule, back, Mia · **What happens:** be, go, kick, come back, rule · **To what, where:** football

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 (rule, back, Mia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:15
# text = And Mia's rule is simple: after an hour of games she goes outside and kicks a football about, then comes back with fresh energy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:discourse
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | Mia's rule |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | back |  |  |  | hour | outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kick** | present | back *not said here* | a football |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent football=Patient |
| 4 | **come back** | present | back *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with fresh energy; about *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Mia |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:15`.

**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/).

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