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title: Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in th… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in the fruit bowl, and nobody missed them once. Who acts: corners, mum, nobody. 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 4

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Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in the fruit bowl, and nobody missed them once.

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**Who acts:** corners, mum, nobody · **What happens:** start, collect, miss · **To what, where:** phones, fruit bowl, corners

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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 (corners, mum, nobody), 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:4
# text = Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in the fruit bowl, and nobody missed them once.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
20	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **start** | past | corners *= corner* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **collect** | past · perfect | Mia's mum | everyone's phones |  | the fruit bowl |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme |
| 3 | **miss** | past | nobody | corners *= corner* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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