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title: He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics
description: He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one. Who acts: Torquil. A sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 19

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He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one.

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**Who acts:** Torquil · **What happens:** rage, start, do, earn · **To what, where:** chores, new one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (Torquil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:19
# text = He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **rage** | present · progressive | Torquil |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | present | Torquil *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | Torquil *not said here* | chores |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality |
| 4 | **earn** | to-infinitive | Torquil *not said here* | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:19`.

**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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