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title: Jake joins boxing «to get hard, innit», expecting the big lads to ba… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake joins boxing «to get hard, innit», expecting the big lads to batter him. Who acts: Jake, big lads. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends through games and clubs, sentence 15

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Jake joins boxing «to get hard, innit», expecting the big lads to batter him.

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**Who acts:** Jake, big lads · **What happens:** join, get, innit, expect, batter · **To what, where:** boxing, big lads, Jake

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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 (Jake, big lads), 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:15
# text = Jake joins boxing «to get hard, innit», expecting the big lads to batter him.
# 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	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	boxing	boxing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	batter	batter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **join** | present | Jake | boxing |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boxing=Patient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **expect** | gerund | Jake *not said here* | the big lads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **batter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the big lads *not said here* | Jake |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |

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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:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:15`.

**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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