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title: At home there was a talk, not a row: Mum said «I make that every mor… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics
description: At home there was a talk, not a row: Mum said «I make that every morning». Who acts: talk, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wasting food and water, sentence 4

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At home there was a talk, not a row: Mum said «I make that every morning».

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**Who acts:** talk, Mum · **What happens:** be, say, make · **To what, where:** home, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (talk, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:4
# text = At home there was a talk, not a row: Mum said «I make that every morning».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	_	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **be** | past | a talk |  |  | home; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Mum | that |  |  | morning |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:4`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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