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title: Jake's teacher sits him next to quiet Zack; three days of silence, t… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake's teacher sits him next to quiet Zack; three days of silence, then Zack picks up Jake's dropped pencil case. Who acts: teacher, Zack. 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 cla
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# The new kid and the first day, sentence 22

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Jake's teacher sits him next to quiet Zack; three days of silence, then Zack picks up Jake's dropped pencil case.

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**Who acts:** teacher, Zack · **What happens:** sit, pick up, drop · **To what, where:** Jake, quiet Zack, dropped pencil case

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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 (teacher, Zack), 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:22
# text = Jake's teacher sits him next to quiet Zack; three days of silence, then Zack picks up Jake's dropped pencil case.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Zack	Zack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	Zack	Zack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
23	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Jake's teacher | Jake | quiet Zack |  |  | next *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 2 | **pick up** | present | Zack | Jake's dropped pencil case |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Topic |
| 3 | **drop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «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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**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:22`.

**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): R7-rel-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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