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title: Scene: in Dublin, Nan sees a man with a tape measure outside the Kel… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics
description: Scene: in Dublin, Nan sees a man with a tape measure outside the Kellys' house. Who acts: Nan. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 4

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Scene: in Dublin, Nan sees a man with a tape measure outside the Kellys' house.

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**Who acts:** Nan · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** man, Dublin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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 (Nan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:4
# text = Scene: in Dublin, Nan sees a man with a tape measure outside the Kellys' house.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tape	tape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Kellys	Kelly	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **see** | present | Nan | a man |  | Dublin |  | with a tape measure; outside the Kellys's house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): 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/).

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