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title: Throwing things turns a joke school rivalry into a dangerous one. — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics
description: Throwing things turns a joke school rivalry into a dangerous one. Who acts: Throwing. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 29

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Throwing things turns a joke school rivalry into a dangerous one.

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**Who acts:** Throwing · **What happens:** throw, turn · **To what, where:** things, school rivalry

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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 (Throwing), 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:29
# text = Throwing things turns a joke school rivalry into a dangerous one.
# 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): no change
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **throw** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Throwing | a school rivalry |  |  |  | into a dangerous one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rivalry=Theme into one=Trajectory |

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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): 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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