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title: Jake, losing at Fortnite, throws his controller and cracks the TV; h… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake, losing at Fortnite, throws his controller and cracks the TV; he loses the console for a month and pays towards the screen. Who acts: Jake. A sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 20

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Jake, losing at Fortnite, throws his controller and cracks the TV; he loses the console for a month and pays towards the screen.

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**Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** lose, throw, crack, pay · **To what, where:** Fortnite, controller, TV, console

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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 (Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:20
# text = Jake, losing at Fortnite, throws his controller and cracks the TV; he loses the console for a month and pays towards the screen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Fortnite	Fortnite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **lose** | gerund | Jake *not said here* |  |  | Fortnite |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at fortnite=Eventuality |
| 2 | **throw** | present | Jake | Jake's controller |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controller=Theme |
| 3 | **crack** | present | Jake *not said here* | the TV |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tv=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | present | Jake | the console |  |  | month |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality |
| 5 | **pay** | present | Jake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the screen | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:20`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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