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title: Chloe nearly walks out — but stays, gets cast as a talking toilet in… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics
description: Chloe nearly walks out — but stays, gets cast as a talking toilet in the panto and makes the whole club cry laughing. Who acts: Chloe, whole club. 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
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# Friends through games and clubs, sentence 20

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Chloe nearly walks out — but stays, gets cast as a talking toilet in the panto and makes the whole club cry laughing.

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**Who acts:** Chloe, whole club · **What happens:** walk out, stay, cast, make, cry, laugh · **To what, where:** whole club

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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 (Chloe, whole club), 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:20
# text = Chloe nearly walks out — but stays, gets cast as a talking toilet in the panto and makes the whole club cry laughing.
# 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	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	panto	panto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **walk out** | present | Chloe |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | present | Chloe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cast** | present · passive | Chloe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a talking toilet in the panto | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as toilet=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | present | Chloe *not said here* | the whole club |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | the whole club *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **laugh** | gerund | the whole club *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:20`.

**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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