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title: Three breaks in a row she stands near the rope, pretending to tie he… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics
description: Three breaks in a row she stands near the rope, pretending to tie her shoelace, until the lace is nearly worn through. Who acts: Lily. A sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 1

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Three breaks in a row she stands near the rope, pretending to tie her shoelace, until the lace is nearly worn through.

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**Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** stand, pretend, tie, wear through · **To what, where:** Three breaks, rope, shoelace, lace

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:1
# text = Three breaks in a row she stands near the rope, pretending to tie her shoelace, until the lace is nearly worn through.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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 ×1
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shoelace	shoelace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
24	through	through	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | Lily | Three breaks in a row |  | the rope |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near rope=Location |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie** | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | Lily's shoelace |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoelace=Patient |
| 4 | **wear through** | present · passive |  | the lace |  |  |  | nearly, through *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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