--- title: Jacob's big sister told him the ice-cream van «only plays music when… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Jacob's big sister told him the ice-cream van «only plays music when it's run out» — their own mum had told her that when she was little, to save money. Who acts: big sister, Mum. 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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 (big sister, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:15 # text = Jacob's big sister told him the ice-cream van «only plays music when it's run out» — their own mum had told her that when she was little, to save money. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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 1 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 van van NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 14 plays play NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 compound _ _ 15 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 — - PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 parataxis _ _ 37 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob's big sister | the cream van | Jacob | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run out** *in a quote* | present · passive | | van | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | Threats's own mum | sister | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | Mum | | | | | little *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | 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. 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