--- title: Grandpa laughed: «Son, the pros last eight seconds.» Everyone laughe… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Grandpa laughed: «Son, the pros last eight seconds.» Everyone laughed, Jake too, and after that Grandpa asked «How many seconds?» every time Jake told a story. Who acts: Grandpa, Everyone, Jake. 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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 (Grandpa, Everyone, 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:1 # text = Grandpa laughed: «Son, the pros last eight seconds.» Everyone laughed, Jake too, and after that Grandpa asked «How many seconds?» every time Jake told a story. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 5 Son Son PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pros pro NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 9 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ _ 15 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl:unmarked 33 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advcl 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | Grandpa | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **last** *in a quote* | present | | | | | second | Son *vocative* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | past | Everyone | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | that Grandpa | | | | second; time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jake | a story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | 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:1`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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