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title: His mum sees the muddy floor — āiyā! — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics
description: His mum sees the muddy floor — āiyā! Who acts: mum. A sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 4

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His mum sees the muddy floor — āiyā!

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**Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** muddy floor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the chinese street 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:4
# text = His mum sees the muddy floor — āiyā!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.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): no change
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	āiyā	āiyā	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	3	discourse	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **see** | present | Chinese's mum | the muddy floor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floor=Stimulus |

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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:chinese-street:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.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): no change. **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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