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title: "You and Sophie sitting in a tree" is a teasing playground rhyme tha… — Your uh-oh feeling · tree and pragmatics
description: "You and Sophie sitting in a tree" is a teasing playground rhyme that says two children are a couple; you can ask the teaser to stop and tell an adult if it goes on. Who acts: You, teasing playground rhyme, two children, teaser. A sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» of the everyday course of
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# Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 24

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"You and Sophie sitting in a tree" is a teasing playground rhyme that says two children are a couple; you can ask the teaser to stop and tell an adult if it goes on.

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**Who acts:** You, teasing playground rhyme, two children, teaser, adult, couple · **What happens:** sit, tease, be, say, ask, stop · **To what, where:** tree, teasing playground rhyme, couple, teaser · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» 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 (You, teasing playground rhyme, two children, teaser), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:24
# text = "You and Sophie sitting in a tree" is a teasing playground rhyme that says two children are a couple; you can ask the teaser to stop and tell an adult if it goes on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 019-uh-oh-feeling.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	teaser	teaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | You |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location |
| 2 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a teasing playground rhyme |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a teasing playground rhyme |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | two children | a couple |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you | the teaser |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent teaser=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the teaser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **go on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | couple |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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, R7-rel-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/).

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