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title: First activity: build a tower out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics
description: First activity: build a tower out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows with a partner, Grace-from-Brownies (not Grace-from-school). Who acts: First activity. A sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Friends through games and clubs, sentence 1

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First activity: build a tower out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows with a partner, Grace-from-Brownies (not Grace-from-school).

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**Who acts:** First activity · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** tower, dry spaghetti

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends through games and clubs» 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 (First activity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:1
# text = First activity: build a tower out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows with a partner, Grace-from-Brownies (not Grace-from-school).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.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	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	amod	_	_
2	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	spaghetti	spaghetti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	marshmallows	marshmallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	Brownies	brownie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	flat	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
24	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **build** | infinitive | First activity *not said here* | a tower |  | dry spaghetti and marshmallows |  | with a partner | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tower=Theme with partner=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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**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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