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title: Lucy said she'd won a dance competition; a friend's mum had been the… — The friend with a PS6 · tree and pragmatics
description: Lucy said she'd won a dance competition; a friend's mum had been there: «You came fifth, sweetheart — and it was brilliant.» The class clapped for fifth anyway. Who acts: Lucy, mum, You, friend. A sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# The friend with a PS6, sentence 20

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Lucy said she'd won a dance competition; a friend's mum had been there: «You came fifth, sweetheart — and it was brilliant.» The class clapped for fifth anyway.

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**Who acts:** Lucy, mum, You, friend, class · **What happens:** say, win, have, be, come, clap · **To what, where:** dance competition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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 (Lucy, mum, You, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:20
# text = Lucy said she'd won a dance competition; a friend's mum had been there: «You came fifth, sweetheart — and it was brilliant.» The class clapped for fifth anyway.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.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 ×2
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin
5	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	_
36	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lucy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | past · perfect | Lucy | a dance competition |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent competition=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | a friend's mum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  |  | sweetheart *vocative*; fifth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | friend |  |  |  |  | brilliant *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **clap** | past | the class |  |  |  |  | for fifth; anyway *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

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