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title: Someone's «ex» is a person they used to be married to or go out with. — Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaura… · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone's «ex» is a person they used to be married to or go out with. Who acts: ex, officer. A sentence of the lesson «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds, sentence 20

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Someone's «ex» is a person they used to be married to or go out with.

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**Who acts:** ex, officer · **What happens:** be, use, marry, go out · **To what, where:** person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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 (ex, officer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:20
# text = Someone's «ex» is a person they used to be married to or go out with.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.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	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	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | Someone's ex | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | officer | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent person=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | officer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **go out** | infinitive | officer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:20`.

**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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