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title: Ellie admits later she left only so she wouldn't be the next one pic… — The group chat that turns · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellie admits later she left only so she wouldn't be the next one picked on. Who acts: Ellie. A sentence of the lesson «The group chat that turns» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The group chat that turns, sentence 9

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Ellie admits later she left only so she wouldn't be the next one picked on.

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**Who acts:** Ellie · **What happens:** admit, leave, not be, pick on · **To what, where:** next one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The group chat that turns» 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 (Ellie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:9
# text = Ellie admits later she left only so she wouldn't be the next one picked on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 479-the-group-chat-that-turns.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	admits	admit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
15	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Ellie |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Ellie |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | would | Ellie | the next one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pick on** | participle |  | the next one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:9`.

**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, 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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