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title: Kieran and Jake have been tried by everyone, teachers and mums: «He'… — Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran and Jake have been tried by everyone, teachers and mums: «He's just a wasteman,» says Kieran (London slang for a useless person). Who acts: everyone, teacher, Kieran. A sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 14

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Kieran and Jake have been tried by everyone, teachers and mums: «He's just a wasteman,» says Kieran (London slang for a useless person).

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**Who acts:** everyone, teacher, Kieran · **What happens:** try, be, say · **To what, where:** Kieran, wasteman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 (everyone, teacher, Kieran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:14
# text = Kieran and Jake have been tried by everyone, teachers and mums: «He's just a wasteman,» says Kieran (London slang for a useless person).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mums	mum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wasteman	wasteman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
22	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **try** | present · perfect · passive | everyone | Kieran and Jake |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | teacher | a wasteman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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