--- title: Mum laughs too, then says, "Ah, I shouldn't laugh, really. — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics description: Mum laughs too, then says, "Ah, I shouldn't laugh, really. Who acts: Mum, I. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/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/) / [Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity go…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/) / 5 # Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 5 Mum laughs too, then says, "Ah, I shouldn't laugh, really. **Who acts:** Mum, I · **What happens:** laugh, say, not laugh · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, I), 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:5 # text = Mum laughs too, then says, "Ah, I shouldn't laugh, really. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 9 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | Mum | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **laugh** *in a quote* | should | I | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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