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title: At break she stands by the wall pretending to read the fire notice f… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: At break she stands by the wall pretending to read the fire notice for the fifth time. Who acts: Ada. A sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The new kid and the first day, sentence 2

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At break she stands by the wall pretending to read the fire notice for the fifth time.

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**Who acts:** Ada · **What happens:** stand, pretend, read · **To what, where:** break, fire notice

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:2
# text = At break she stands by the wall pretending to read the fire notice for the fifth time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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): R5-strong ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **stand** | present | Ada |  |  | break |  | by the wall | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at break=Location |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | Ada *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Ada *not said here* | the fire notice |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Topic |

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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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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