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title: Mia's dad demanded a rematch, lost again, and went to make tea «for… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia's dad demanded a rematch, lost again, and went to make tea «for no reason». Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Family game night» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Family game night, sentence 3

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Mia's dad demanded a rematch, lost again, and went to make tea «for no reason».

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**Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** demand, lose, go, make · **To what, where:** rematch, tea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family game night» 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 (dad), 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:3
# text = Mia's dad demanded a rematch, lost again, and went to make tea «for no reason».
# 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): no change
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rematch	rematch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Mia's dad | a rematch |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rematch=Precondition |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Mia's dad *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Mia's dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Mia's dad *not said here* | tea |  |  |  | for no reason | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tea=Material for reason=Beneficiary |

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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:425-family-game-night.lesson:3`.

**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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