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title: Noah's favourite gaming YouTuber swears so much that his little sist… — Older siblings and YouTube gameplay · tree and pragmatics
description: Noah's favourite gaming YouTuber swears so much that his little sister started saying «absolutely ****ing brilliant» at the breakfast table, which went down badly with Grandma. Who acts: favourite gaming YouTuber, little sister, breakfast table. A sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube g
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# Older siblings and YouTube gameplay, sentence 13

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Noah's favourite gaming YouTuber swears so much that his little sister started saying «absolutely \*\*\*\*ing brilliant» at the breakfast table, which went down badly with Grandma.

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**Who acts:** favourite gaming YouTuber, little sister, breakfast table · **What happens:** swear, start, say, e, go down · **To what, where:** breakfast table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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 (favourite gaming YouTuber, little sister, breakfast table), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:13
# text = Noah's favourite gaming YouTuber swears so much that his little sister started saying «absolutely ****ing brilliant» at the breakfast table, which went down badly with Grandma.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	gaming	gaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	YouTuber	YouTuber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	****	****	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ing	e	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	ccomp	_	_
19	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:xcomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **swear** | present | Noah's favourite gaming YouTuber |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start** | past | YouTuber's little sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | YouTuber's little sister *not said here* |  |  | the breakfast table |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **e** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | absolutely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go down** | past | the breakfast table |  |  |  |  | with Grandma; badly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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