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title: Vivid example: in Auckland, Freya and her dad sit on the sofa with t… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vivid example: in Auckland, Freya and her dad sit on the sofa with the TV menu open. Who acts: Freya. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 4

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Vivid example: in Auckland, Freya and her dad sit on the sofa with the TV menu open.

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**Who acts:** Freya · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** Auckland

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (Freya), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:4
# text = Vivid example: in Auckland, Freya and her dad sit on the sofa with the TV menu open.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Freya	Freya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	menu	menu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Freya and Auckland's dad |  |  | Auckland |  | on the sofa with the TV menu | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in auckland=Location |

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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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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