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description: Then one night Theo couldn't sleep, because a scene he had watched kept playing in his head with the lights off. Who acts: Theo, scene. A sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Older siblings and YouTube gameplay, sentence 2

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Then one night Theo couldn't sleep, because a scene he had watched kept playing in his head with the lights off.

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**Who acts:** Theo, scene · **What happens:** not sleep, watch, keep, play · **To what, where:** scene, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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 (Theo, scene), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:2
# text = Then one night Theo couldn't sleep, because a scene he had watched kept playing in his head with the lights off.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | could | Theo |  |  |  | then; night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | past · perfect | Theo | a scene *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | a scene |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | a scene *not said here* |  |  | Theo's head |  | with the lights | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with light=Theme |

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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:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:2`.

**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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