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title: Another week Kieran pretends not to know Sam when the cool kids appe… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: Another week Kieran pretends not to know Sam when the cool kids appear, and Sam does exactly the same back next time, out of revenge. Who acts: Kieran, cool kids. A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 8

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Another week Kieran pretends not to know Sam when the cool kids appear, and Sam does exactly the same back next time, out of revenge.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, cool kids · **What happens:** pretend, not know, appear · **To what, where:** Sam

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (Kieran, cool kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:8
# text = Another week Kieran pretends not to know Sam when the cool kids appear, and Sam does exactly the same back next time, out of revenge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pretend** | present | Kieran |  |  |  | week |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** | to-infinitive | Kieran *not said here* | Sam |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sam=Stimulus |
| 3 | **appear** | present | the cool kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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