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title: Instead of kicking her out, they showed her the controls for ten min… — Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of kicking her out, they showed her the controls for ten minutes. Who acts: walls. A sentence of the lesson «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building, sentence 9

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Instead of kicking her out, they showed her the controls for ten minutes.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** kick out, show · **To what, where:** team, controls

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building» 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 (walls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building.lesson:9
# text = Instead of kicking her out, they showed her the controls for ten minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building.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	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	controls	control	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **kick out** | gerund | walls *= wall* *not said here* | team |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | past | walls *= wall* | the controls | team |  | minute |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient control=Topic |

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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:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building.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/).

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