--- title: His mum suggested half for games and half for saving; he grumbled li… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: His mum suggested half for games and half for saving; he grumbled like a grumpy pirate, but agreed. Who acts: mum, half, Theo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mum, half, Theo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:11 # text = His mum suggested half for games and half for saving; he grumbled like a grumpy pirate, but agreed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 suggested suggest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 4 conj _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grumbled grumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pirate pirate NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | Theo's mum | half and half | | | | for games | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic | | 2 | **save** | gerund | half *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | Theo | | | | | like a grumpy pirate | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Theo *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/10/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)