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title: Jake's cousin Dylan, thirteen, holds the remote over his head every… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake's cousin Dylan, thirteen, holds the remote over his head every Sunday until Jake's auntie tells him to pack it in (stop it). Who acts: cousin, auntie. A sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 17

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Jake's cousin Dylan, thirteen, holds the remote over his head every Sunday until Jake's auntie tells him to pack it in (stop it).

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**Who acts:** cousin, auntie · **What happens:** hold, tell, pack in, stop · **To what, where:** remote, head, cousin, auntie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 (cousin, auntie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:17
# text = Jake's cousin Dylan, thirteen, holds the remote over his head every Sunday until Jake's auntie tells him to pack it in (stop it).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Dylan	Dylan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	thirteen	thirteen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pack	pack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	PART	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **hold** | present | Jake's cousin | the remote |  | cousin's head | sunday |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent remote=Theme over head=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Jake's auntie |  | cousin |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pack in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jake's auntie *not said here* | auntie |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | infinitive | Jake's auntie *not said here* | auntie |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:17`.

**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. **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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