--- title: Older relatives often ask young people "Have you got a boyfriend or… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: Older relatives often ask young people "Have you got a boyfriend or girlfriend yet?" because they are interested, but many people find it embarrassing, and "Not right now" is a fine answer. Who acts: Older relatives, young people, relatives, many people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Older relatives, young people, relatives, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:7 # text = Older relatives often ask young people "Have you got a boyfriend or girlfriend yet?" because they are interested, but many people find it embarrassing, and "Not right now" is a fine answer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 iobj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 yet yet ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 right right ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Older relatives | | young people | | | often *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | young people *= people* | a boyfriend or girlfriend | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boyfriend=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | relatives *= relative* | | | | | interested *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | present | many people | girlfriend | | | | embarrassing *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | Older relatives *not said here* | a fine answer | | | now | | tree rules | 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. **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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:7`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/6/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)