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title: Scene: in a kitchen in Leeds, Mum whispers on the phone, a big box i… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Scene: in a kitchen in Leeds, Mum whispers on the phone, a big box is hidden on top of the wardrobe, and your birthday is on Saturday. Who acts: Mum, birthday. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 5

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Scene: in a kitchen in Leeds, Mum whispers on the phone, a big box is hidden on top of the wardrobe, and your birthday is on Saturday.

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**Who acts:** Mum, birthday · **What happens:** whisper, hide, be · **To what, where:** kitchen, big box, top

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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, birthday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:5
# text = Scene: in a kitchen in Leeds, Mum whispers on the phone, a big box is hidden on top of the wardrobe, and your birthday is on Saturday.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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
1	Scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Mum |  |  | a kitchen in Leeds |  | on the phone | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location |
| 2 | **hide** | present · passive |  | a big box |  | top of the wardrobe |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient on top=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | your birthday |  |  |  |  | on Saturday | tree rules |

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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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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. **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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