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title: Finally she says, «I'm always at the back.» Maddie honestly hadn't n… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally she says, «I'm always at the back.» Maddie honestly hadn't noticed. Who acts: Chloe, Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 2

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Finally she says, «I'm always at the back.» Maddie honestly hadn't noticed.

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**Who acts:** Chloe, Maddie · **What happens:** say, be, not notice · **To what, where:** back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:2
# text = Finally she says, «I'm always at the back.» Maddie honestly hadn't noticed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.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	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Chloe |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Chloe |  |  | the back |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **notice** | past · perfect | Maddie |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:2`.

**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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