--- title: Someone's «ex» is a boyfriend, girlfriend or partner they used to be… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: Someone's «ex» is a boyfriend, girlfriend or partner they used to be with, and «not for little ears» means grown-up talk that is not for children. Who acts: ex, girlfriend, little ears, grown talk. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ex, girlfriend, little ears, grown talk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:22 # text = Someone's «ex» is a boyfriend, girlfriend or partner they used to be with, and «not for little ears» means grown-up talk that is not for children. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 127-excuse-me-and-table-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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ex ex NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound 30 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Someone's ex | a boyfriend and girlfriend or partner | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | past | girlfriend | a boyfriend and girlfriend or partner *not said here* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **be** | to-infinitive | girlfriend *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | little ears | grown talk | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | grown talk | | | | | for children | tree rules | 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. **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:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners.lesson:22`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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