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title: The next day a dinner lady spots him alone and walks him to a table… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day a dinner lady spots him alone and walks him to a table with a nice group, who shove up and make room. Who acts: dinner lady, nice group. 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 o
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# The new kid and the first day, sentence 9

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The next day a dinner lady spots him alone and walks him to a table with a nice group, who shove up and make room.

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**Who acts:** dinner lady, nice group · **What happens:** spot, walk, shove up, make · **To what, where:** Connor, table, room

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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 (dinner lady, nice group), 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:9
# text = The next day a dinner lady spots him alone and walks him to a table with a nice group, who shove up and make room.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spots	spot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shove	shove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **spot** | present | a dinner lady |  | Connor |  | day | alone *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | present | a dinner lady *not said here* | Connor |  | a table with a nice group |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to table=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shove up** | present | a nice group |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | a nice group *not said here* | room |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product |

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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:9`.

**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, R8-pos-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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