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title: Chloe switches the dance game off mid-song when she's losing to Aish… — The row over a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Chloe switches the dance game off mid-song when she's losing to Aisha, then later texts: «sorry, I was being a sore loser». Who acts: Chloe, meme way. 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 c
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# The row over a game, sentence 19

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Chloe switches the dance game off mid-song when she's losing to Aisha, then later texts: «sorry, I was being a sore loser».

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**Who acts:** Chloe, meme way · **What happens:** switch off, lose, be · **To what, where:** dance game, Aisha, sore loser · **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 (Chloe, meme way), 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:19
# text = Chloe switches the dance game off mid-song when she's losing to Aisha, then later texts: «sorry, I was being a sore loser».
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	switches	switch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
7	mid-song	mid-song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:cop
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	loser	loser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **switch off** | present | Chloe | the dance game |  |  |  | mid-song *obl:unmarked* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | present · progressive | Chloe |  | Aisha |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past · progressive | a meme way *= way* | a sore loser |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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