---
title: An Aussie mum says, «The servo's closed, love», and Ella in London h… — Vocabulary in context · tree and pragmatics
description: An Aussie mum says, «The servo's closed, love», and Ella in London has to work it out: a servo is a petrol station. Who acts: Aussie mum, Ella, servo. A sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Vocabulary in context](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/) / 13

# Vocabulary in context, sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An Aussie mum says, «The servo's closed, love», and Ella in London has to work it out: a servo is a petrol station.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Aussie mum, Ella, servo · **What happens:** say, be, have, work out · **To what, where:** servo, petrol station · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» of the english 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 (Aussie mum, Ella, servo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:13
# text = An Aussie mum says, «The servo's closed, love», and Ella in London has to work it out: a servo is a petrol station.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 020-vocabulary-in-context.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Aussie	Aussie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	servo	servo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
10	closed	closed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	servo	servo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Aussie mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the servo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | Ella in London |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work out** | to-infinitive | Ella in London *not said here* | servo |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a servo | a petrol station |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:english:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:13`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Vocabulary in context, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/11/)
- next →: [Vocabulary in context, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/14/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/)

