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title: Lily admits she was annoyed Maddie's tower was better, and helps reb… — The row over a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily admits she was annoyed Maddie's tower was better, and helps rebuild it, bigger. Who acts: Lily, tower. A sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The row over a game, sentence 11

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Lily admits she was annoyed Maddie's tower was better, and helps rebuild it, bigger.

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**Who acts:** Lily, tower · **What happens:** admit, be, help, rebuild · **To what, where:** tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» 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 (Lily, tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:11
# text = Lily admits she was annoyed Maddie's tower was better, and helps rebuild it, bigger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 475-the-row-over-a-game.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	admits	admit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
6	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Maddie's tower |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | present | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **rebuild** | infinitive | Lily *not said here* | tower |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |

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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:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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