--- title: In Leeds, Dad takes Ellie for pizza and says, "There's someone I'd l… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: In Leeds, Dad takes Ellie for pizza and says, "There's someone I'd like you to meet." Sarah is waiting at the table, a bit nervous too, and she has two kids of her own who will come round at weekends. Who acts: Dad, someone, Sarah, two kids. 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Sarah is waiting at the table, a bit nervous too, and she has two kids of her own who will come round at weekends. **Who acts:** Dad, someone, Sarah, two kids · **What happens:** take, say, be, like, meet, wait · **To what, where:** Ellie, Leeds, you, table, two kids · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life 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 (Dad, someone, Sarah, two kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:3 # text = In Leeds, Dad takes Ellie for pizza and says, "There's someone I'd like you to meet." Sarah is waiting at the table, a bit nervous too, and she has two kids of her own who will come round at weekends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 016-new-partners-and-step-families.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 5 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pizza pizza NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 24 Sarah Sarah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 34 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 nmod _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl:relcl 47 round round ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:advmod 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 weekends weekend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Dad | Ellie | | Leeds | | for pizza | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ellie=Value in leeds=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | someone | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | would | Dad | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **meet** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wait** | present · progressive | Sarah | | | the table | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | | 7 | **have** | present | Sarah | two kids of Sarah's own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | | 8 | **come round** | future | two kids of Sarah's own | | | | weekend | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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