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title: In Ohio, a teacher hands Everett a note in front of everyone saying… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ohio, a teacher hands Everett a note in front of everyone saying his family owes $12 for school lunches, and he stuffs it in his bag. Who acts: teacher, family. A sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 23

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In Ohio, a teacher hands Everett a note in front of everyone saying his family owes $12 for school lunches, and he stuffs it in his bag.

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**Who acts:** teacher, family · **What happens:** hand, say, owe, stuff · **To what, where:** note, Everett, Ohio, bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (teacher, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:23
# text = In Ohio, a teacher hands Everett a note in front of everyone saying his family owes $12 for school lunches, and he stuffs it in his bag.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Everett	Everett	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nmod	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	owes	owe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	$	$	SYM	$	_	17	obj	_	_
19	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lunches	lunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stuffs	stuff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hand** | present | a teacher | a note | Everett | Ohio |  | in front of everyone | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everett=Destination note=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **owe** | present | teacher's family |  |  |  |  | for school lunches *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent $=Theme for lunch=Goal |
| 4 | **stuff** | present | family | note |  | teacher's bag |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination |

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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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**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. **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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