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title: Five kids come, including Eli, a boy nobody ever talks to. — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics
description: Five kids come, including Eli, a boy nobody ever talks to. Who acts: Five kids, nobody. 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 8

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Five kids come, including Eli, a boy nobody ever talks to.

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**Who acts:** Five kids, nobody · **What happens:** come, talk · **To what, where:** boy

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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 (Five kids, nobody), 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:8
# text = Five kids come, including Eli, a boy nobody ever talks to.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	including	include	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Eli	Eli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Five kids |  |  |  |  | include Eli | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | present | nobody | a boy *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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, R8-pos-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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