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description: Then his mum looked at her phone and said, in a very quiet voice that was much worse than shouting: «Ollie. Who acts: mum, quiet voice. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's card: game money is real money» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Mum's card: game money is real money, sentence 3

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Then his mum looked at her phone and said, in a very quiet voice that was much worse than shouting: «Ollie.

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**Who acts:** mum, quiet voice · **What happens:** look, say, be, shout · **To what, where:** phone, quiet voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's card: game money is real money» 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, quiet voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:414-mums-card.lesson:3
# text = Then his mum looked at her phone and said, in a very quiet voice that was much worse than shouting: «Ollie.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 414-mums-card.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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **look** | past | Ollie's mum |  |  | mum's phone | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ollie's mum *not said here* |  |  | a quiet voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
| 3 | **is** | past | a quiet voice |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | a quiet voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:414-mums-card.lesson:3`.

**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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