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title: Teachers can choose teams in fair ways so nobody is always picked la… — Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers can choose teams in fair ways so nobody is always picked last. Who acts: Teachers. A sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying, sentence 11

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Teachers can choose teams in fair ways so nobody is always picked last.

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**Who acts:** Teachers · **What happens:** choose, pick · **To what, where:** teams, fair ways, nobody

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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 (Teachers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:11
# text = Teachers can choose teams in fair ways so nobody is always picked last.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **choose** | can | Teachers | teams |  | fair ways |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | present · passive |  | nobody |  |  |  | always, last *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:11`.

**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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