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title: Her mum used to say «be ladylike» when Lily ran in the playground, u… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mum used to say «be ladylike» when Lily ran in the playground, until Lily asked what «ladylike» means. Who acts: mum, Lily, ladylike. A sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 16

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Her mum used to say «be ladylike» when Lily ran in the playground, until Lily asked what «ladylike» means.

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**Who acts:** mum, Lily, ladylike · **What happens:** use, say, be, run, ask, mean · **To what, where:** playground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (mum, Lily, ladylike), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:16
# text = Her mum used to say «be ladylike» when Lily ran in the playground, until Lily asked what «ladylike» means.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	ladylike	ladylike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ladylike	ladylike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | past | Lily's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Lily's mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ladylike *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | past | Lily |  |  | the playground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in playground=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | present | ladylike |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:16`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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