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title: For example, a boy in Auckland uses the last of the milk and writes… — Bedroom, living room and manners at home · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a boy in Auckland uses the last of the milk and writes «milk» on the shopping list, so nobody finds an empty carton in the morning. Who acts: boy, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Bedroom, living room and manners at home, sentence 3

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For example, a boy in Auckland uses the last of the milk and writes «milk» on the shopping list, so nobody finds an empty carton in the morning.

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**Who acts:** boy, nobody · **What happens:** use, write, find · **To what, where:** last, milk, shopping list, empty carton

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» of the everyday 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 (boy, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.lesson:3
# text = For example, a boy in Auckland uses the last of the milk and writes «milk» on the shopping list, so nobody finds an empty carton in the morning.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
26	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	carton	carton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | a boy in Auckland | the last of the milk |  |  |  | for example | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent last=Theme for example=Eventuality |
| 2 | **write** | present | a boy in Auckland *not said here* | milk |  | the shopping list |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme on list=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | present | nobody | a empty carton |  |  | morning |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carton=Topic |

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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:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.lesson:3`.

**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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