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title: His big cousin laughed: «There'll be GTA 9 by then, mate.» — GTA 6: what rated 18 means · tree and pragmatics
description: His big cousin laughed: «There'll be GTA 9 by then, mate.» Who acts: big cousin. A sentence of the lesson «GTA 6: what rated 18 means» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# GTA 6: what rated 18 means, sentence 21

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His big cousin laughed: «There'll be GTA 9 by then, mate.»

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**Who acts:** big cousin · **What happens:** laugh, be · **To what, where:** 9 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «GTA 6: what rated 18 means» 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 (big cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means.lesson:21
# text = His big cousin laughed: «There'll be GTA 9 by then, mate.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means.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 ×3
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:expl
8	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:aux
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	GTA	GTA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:unmarked
11	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | boy's big cousin |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | boy's big cousin *not said here* | 9 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means.lesson:21`.

**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 ×3. **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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