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title: In her first week she turns all her white shirts pink, eats toast fo… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: In her first week she turns all her white shirts pink, eats toast for tea three nights running and rings her mum to ask how to boil an egg. Who acts: cousin, three nights. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 4

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In her first week she turns all her white shirts pink, eats toast for tea three nights running and rings her mum to ask how to boil an egg.

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**Who acts:** cousin, three nights · **What happens:** turn, eat, run, ring, ask, boil · **To what, where:** white shirts, toast, mum, egg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (cousin, three nights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:4
# text = In her first week she turns all her white shirts pink, eats toast for tea three nights running and rings her mum to ask how to boil an egg.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | cousin | cousin's white shirts |  |  | week | pink *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | cousin *not said here* | toast |  |  | night | for tea | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | three nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ring** | present | cousin *not said here* | cousin's mum |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | cousin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **boil** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a egg |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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