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title: Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal. Who acts: Mum, Oscar. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 3

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Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.

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**Who acts:** Mum, Oscar · **What happens:** watch, eat · **To what, where:** breakfast show, kitchen, cereal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (Mum, Oscar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:3
# text = Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	dep	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cork	Cork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **watch** | present | Mum | the breakfast show |  | a kitchen in Cork |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | Oscar | Oscar's cereal |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cereal=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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R6-punct-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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