--- title: Noah bought a game for his little sister Isla as well as his own, an… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Noah bought a game for his little sister Isla as well as his own, and Isla followed him round the house for a week saying «thank you» until he begged her to stop. Who acts: Noah, Isla. 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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 (Noah, Isla), 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:16 # text = Noah bought a game for his little sister Isla as well as his own, and Isla followed him round the house for a week saying «thank you» until he begged her to stop. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 9 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 round round ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | past | Noah | a game | | | | for Noah's little sister; well *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent game=Theme for sister=Beneficiary | | 2 | **follow** | past | Isla | Noah | | the house | week | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme round house=Trajectory | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Isla *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Isla | | aunt | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Isla *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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: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, R8-pos-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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/15/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)