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title: Oliver in Sydney promised his little brother Alfie they would build… — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics
description: Oliver in Sydney promised his little brother Alfie they would build a Lego rocket after school. Who acts: Oliver, they. A sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Promises to family, sentence 0

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Oliver in Sydney promised his little brother Alfie they would build a Lego rocket after school.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, they · **What happens:** promise, build · **To what, where:** little brother, Lego rocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Oliver, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:0
# text = Oliver in Sydney promised his little brother Alfie they would build a Lego rocket after school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.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	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Lego	Lego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Oliver in Sydney |  | Oliver's little brother |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **build** | would | they | a Lego rocket |  |  | after school |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rocket=Product |

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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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.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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