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title: Fly goes fly, flew, flown; in baseball "he flied out" (hit a high ba… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fly goes fly, flew, flown; in baseball "he flied out" (hit a high ball that was caught) is regular because it comes from the noun "fly ball". Who acts: Fly, ball. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 18

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Fly goes fly, flew, flown; in baseball "he flied out" (hit a high ball that was caught) is regular because it comes from the noun "fly ball".

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**Who acts:** Fly, ball · **What happens:** go, fly, fly out, hit, catch, be · **To what, where:** baseball, high ball, noun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language 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 (Fly, ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:18
# text = Fly goes fly, flew, flown; in baseball "he flied out" (hit a high ball that was caught) is regular because it comes from the noun "fly ball".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fly	fly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	baseball	baseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flied	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
34	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | present | Fly |  |  |  |  | fly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fly out** *in a quote* | past | Fly |  |  | baseball |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | past |  | a high ball |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **catch** | past · passive |  | a high ball |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | regular *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** | present | ball |  |  | the noun |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from noun=Initial\_Location |

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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:language:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:18`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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