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title: A girl in Vancouver gets the same book from two aunts; she thanks bo… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Vancouver gets the same book from two aunts; she thanks both warmly, and later, with her mum's help and never in front of the givers, swaps one for a different book. Who acts: girl, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» of the everyday cours
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# Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 4

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A girl in Vancouver gets the same book from two aunts; she thanks both warmly, and later, with her mum's help and never in front of the givers, swaps one for a different book.

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**Who acts:** girl, mum · **What happens:** get, thank, swap, help · **To what, where:** same book, both, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 (girl, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:4
# text = A girl in Vancouver gets the same book from two aunts; she thanks both warmly, and later, with her mum's help and never in front of the givers, swaps one for a different book.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	aunts	aunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thanks	thank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	both	both	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	givers	giver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	swaps	swap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **get** | present | a girl in Vancouver | the same book |  |  |  | from two aunts | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent book=Theme from aunt=Source |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | girl | both |  |  |  | warmly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |
| 3 | **swap** | present | girl *not said here* | one |  |  |  | with girl's mum's help and front of the givers; for a different book; late *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme for book=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **help** |  | girl's mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×3. **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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