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title: He rode off round the corner and didn't come back. — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode off round the corner and didn't come back. Who acts: Ollie. 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 5

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He rode off round the corner and didn't come back.

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**Who acts:** Ollie · **What happens:** ride off, not come back · **To what, where:** corner

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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 (Ollie), 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:5
# text = He rode off round the corner and didn't come back.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **ride off** | past | Ollie |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round corner=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | past · do-support | Ollie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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