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title: His mum taught him the signs; he started gaming again — carefully —… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: His mum taught him the signs; he started gaming again — carefully — spotted two more scams and reported them. Who acts: mum, Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trusting again, sentence 29

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His mum taught him the signs; he started gaming again — carefully — spotted two more scams and reported them.

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**Who acts:** mum, Sam · **What happens:** teach, start, game, spot, report · **To what, where:** signs, Sam, two more scams

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (mum, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:29
# text = His mum taught him the signs; he started gaming again — carefully — spotted two more scams and reported them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 455-trusting-again.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	gaming	game	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Sam's mum | the signs | Sam |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sign=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | past | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **game** | gerund | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spot** | past |  | two more scams |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scam=Destination |
| 5 | **report** | past |  | signs *= sign* |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:455-trusting-again.lesson:29`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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