--- title: By teatime she says: «They're selling up, sign going up any day, the… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: By teatime she says: «They're selling up, sign going up any day, they've been arguing for months.» The tape measure was real. Who acts: Nan, clue, tape measure. 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 de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Our street: feuds, newcomers and stori…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/) / 5 # Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 5 By teatime she says: «They're selling up, sign going up any day, they've been arguing for months.» The tape measure was real. **Who acts:** Nan, clue, tape measure · **What happens:** say, sell up, sign, go up, argue, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, clue, tape measure), 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:5 # text = By teatime she says: «They're selling up, sign going up any day, they've been arguing for months.» The tape measure was real. # 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 ×2 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 teatime teatime NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sign sign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 aux _ _ 21 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 26 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 tape tape NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 31 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan | | | | | by teatime | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **sell up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | clue | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sign** *in a quote* | infinitive | clue *not said here* | | | | | | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go up** *in a quote* | gerund | clue *not said here* | | | | day | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | clue | | | | month | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | the tape measure | | | | | real *property* | 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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:5`. **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 ×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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