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title: At a school fair an older boy sold Mia «magic wishing stones» — grav… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: At a school fair an older boy sold Mia «magic wishing stones» — gravel from the car park — for a pound each. Who acts: older boy. A sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The older kid's «trade», sentence 25

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At a school fair an older boy sold Mia «magic wishing stones» — gravel from the car park — for a pound each.

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**Who acts:** older boy · **What happens:** sell, wish · **To what, where:** magic wishing stones, Mia, school fair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (older boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:25
# text = At a school fair an older boy sold Mia «magic wishing stones» — gravel from the car park — for a pound each.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 445-the-older-kids-trade.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **sell** | past | a older boy | magic wishing stones | Mia | a school fair |  | for a pound  each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient stone=Theme at fair=Asset |
| 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:25`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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