--- title: Ruby taught her dad the moves, and he danced like a wardrobe falling… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby taught her dad the moves, and he danced like a wardrobe falling down the stairs, but he kept going, laughing louder every round, and Ruby laughed so much she could not dance either. Who acts: Ruby, dad, wardrobe. 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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 (Ruby, dad, wardrobe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:425-family-game-night.lesson:13 # text = Ruby taught her dad the moves, and he danced like a wardrobe falling down the stairs, but he kept going, laughing louder every round, and Ruby laughed so much she could not dance either. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 425-family-game-night.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wardrobe wardrobe NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 down down ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 22 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 25 louder loud ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advcl 38 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Ruby | the moves | Ruby's dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient move=Topic | | 2 | **dance** | past | dad | | | | | like a wardrobe | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall down** | gerund | a wardrobe *not said here* | the stairs | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result | | 4 | **keep** | past | dad | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | gerund | dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **laugh** | gerund | dad *not said here* | every round | | | | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **laugh** | past | Ruby | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **dance** | could | Ruby | | | | | either *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:425-family-game-night.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Family game night, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/12/) - next →: [Family game night, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/)