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title: Finn's family in Wales told his little sister their dog had «gone to… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Finn's family in Wales told his little sister their dog had «gone to live on a farm». Who acts: family, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 26

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Finn's family in Wales told his little sister their dog had «gone to live on a farm».

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**Who acts:** family, dog · **What happens:** tell, go, live · **To what, where:** little sister, farm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (family, dog), 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:26
# text = Finn's family in Wales told his little sister their dog had «gone to live on a farm».
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Finn's family in Wales |  | family's little sister |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past · perfect | dishes's dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | dishes's dog *not said here* |  |  | a farm |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location |

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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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:26`.

**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): 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/).

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