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title: Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why,… — Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why, Mam. Who acts: you, things, family. A sentence of the lesson «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories, sentence 5

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Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why, Mam.

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**Who acts:** you, things, family · **What happens:** drink, say, not say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» 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 (you, things, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:048-famous-people-are-people.lesson:5
# text = Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why, Mam.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 048-famous-people-are-people.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	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
10	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:vocative|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | future · progressive | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | actor's family |  |  |  |  | Mam *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:048-famous-people-are-people.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 ×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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