--- title: Cousin Jake from Texas came to stay and said he'd ridden a real bull… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Cousin Jake from Texas came to stay and said he'd ridden a real bull at a rodeo «for like ten minutes». Who acts: Jake. A sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/) / 0 # Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 0 Cousin Jake from Texas came to stay and said he'd ridden a real bull at a rodeo «for like ten minutes». **Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** come, stay, say, ridden · **To what, where:** real bull · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:0 # text = Cousin Jake from Texas came to stay and said he'd ridden a real bull at a rodeo «for like ten minutes». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.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 1 Cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 ridden ridden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 rodeo rodeo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Jake Cousin from Texas | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Jake Cousin from Texas *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jake Cousin from Texas *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **ridden** | past · perfect | Jake | a real bull | | | minute | a rodeo *obl* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:0`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The friend with a PS6, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/37/) - next →: [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/)