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title: We went to Spain for two weeks, you only went to Wales.» Lily stops… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics
description: We went to Spain for two weeks, you only went to Wales.» Lily stops arguing and says, «OK, cool.» With nothing to fight, Jess runs out of things to compare — and then asks about Wales, for real. Who acts: We, you, Lily, Jess. A sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everythin
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# The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 14

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We went to Spain for two weeks, you only went to Wales.» Lily stops arguing and says, «OK, cool.» With nothing to fight, Jess runs out of things to compare — and then asks about Wales, for real.

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**Who acts:** We, you, Lily, Jess · **What happens:** go, stop, argue, say, fight, run · **To what, where:** Spain, Wales, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 (We, you, Lily, Jess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:14
# text = We went to Spain for two weeks, you only went to Wales.» Lily stops arguing and says, «OK, cool.» With nothing to fight, Jess runs out of things to compare — and then asks about Wales, for real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
16	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
23	OK	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
28	With	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Jess	Jess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
43	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | We |  | Spain |  | week |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | you |  |  | Wales |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wales=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | gerund | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **run** *in a quote* | present | Jess |  |  | things |  | with nothing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out thing=Trajectory |
| 8 | **compare** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | We *not said here* |  |  |  | then | about Wales | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about wales=Topic |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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