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title: Next week the ponytail girl asks her to sit with her. — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics
description: Next week the ponytail girl asks her to sit with her. Who acts: ponytail girl. 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 21

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Next week the ponytail girl asks her to sit with her.

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**Who acts:** ponytail girl · **What happens:** ask, sit · **To what, where:** Chloe

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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 (ponytail girl), 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:21
# text = Next week the ponytail girl asks her to sit with her.
# 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): no change
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ponytail	ponytail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the ponytail girl |  | Chloe |  | week |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the ponytail girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Chloe | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:21`.

**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): no change. **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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