--- title: Connor's first day at a new school, nobody saves him a seat at lunch… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: Connor's first day at a new school, nobody saves him a seat at lunch, so he eats his sandwiches in the toilets. Who acts: nobody, Connor. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The new kid and the first day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/) / 8 # The new kid and the first day, sentence 8 Connor's first day at a new school, nobody saves him a seat at lunch, so he eats his sandwiches in the toilets. **Who acts:** nobody, Connor · **What happens:** save, eat · **To what, where:** seat, Connor, lunch, sandwiches, toilets 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 (nobody, Connor), 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:8 # text = Connor's first day at a new school, nobody saves him a seat at lunch, so he eats his sandwiches in the toilets. # 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 ×2 1 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sandwiches sandwich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | present | nobody | a seat | Connor | lunch | day | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary seat=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | present | Connor | Connor's sandwiches | | the toilets | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Patient | 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. **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:8`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The new kid and the first day, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/7/) - next →: [The new kid and the first day, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/)