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title: Noah's mum simply said, «Not until you're 16, and I will not change… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics
description: Noah's mum simply said, «Not until you're 16, and I will not change my mind,» and she meant it, so Noah stopped asking and saved his breath for something else. Who acts: mum, you, Noah, my. A sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Parents' rules for big games, sentence 15

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Noah's mum simply said, «Not until you're 16, and I will not change my mind,» and she meant it, so Noah stopped asking and saved his breath for something else.

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**Who acts:** mum, you, Noah, my · **What happens:** say, not be, not change, mean, stop, ask · **To what, where:** 16, mind, breath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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, you, Noah, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:15
# text = Noah's mum simply said, «Not until you're 16, and I will not change my mind,» and she meant it, so Noah stopped asking and saved his breath for something else.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	ccomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
31	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	_
38	else	else	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Noah's mum |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | 16 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | future | Noah's mum *= mum* | my mind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | past | mum | mind |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **stop** | past | Noah |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Noah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **save** | past | Noah *not said here* | Noah's breath |  |  |  | for something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme for something=Source |
| 8 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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**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. **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.

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