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title: When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages a… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages and then taught him to skate for real. Who acts: cast, best mate. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 18

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When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages and then taught him to skate for real.

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**Who acts:** cast, best mate · **What happens:** come off, tell, laugh, teach, skate · **To what, where:** best mate, cast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (cast, best mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:18
# text = When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages and then taught him to skate for real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	skate	skate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come off** | past | the cast |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | cast |  | cast's best mate |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | cast's best mate |  |  |  | for ages |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | cast's best mate *not said here* |  | cast |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **skate** | to-infinitive | cast's best mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for real | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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**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.

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