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title: Liam's friends in Dublin dared him to call the lollipop lady a rude… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: Liam's friends in Dublin dared him to call the lollipop lady a rude name as they crossed. Who acts: friends. A sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 0

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Liam's friends in Dublin dared him to call the lollipop lady a rude name as they crossed.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** dare, call, cross · **To what, where:** Dublin, lollipop lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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 (friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:0
# text = Liam's friends in Dublin dared him to call the lollipop lady a rude name as they crossed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.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	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **dare** | past | Liam's friends in Dublin | Dublin |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | Liam's friends in Dublin *not said here* | the lollipop lady |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme name=Result |
| 3 | **cross** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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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**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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:0`.

**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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