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title: Cousin Molly in Newcastle bragged about a pony, a laptop AND a tramp… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Cousin Molly in Newcastle bragged about a pony, a laptop AND a trampoline; her mam rolled her eyes: «You got a jigsaw and socks, pet.» Molly sulked, then played the jigsaw with everyone, and it was canny — Geordie for nice. Who acts: Molly, mam, You. A sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and ma
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# Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 10

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Cousin Molly in Newcastle bragged about a pony, a laptop AND a trampoline; her mam rolled her eyes: «You got a jigsaw and socks, pet.» Molly sulked, then played the jigsaw with everyone, and it was canny — Geordie for nice.

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**Who acts:** Molly, mam, You · **What happens:** brag, roll, get, sulk, play, be · **To what, where:** eyes, jigsaw · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Molly, mam, You), 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:10
# text = Cousin Molly in Newcastle bragged about a pony, a laptop AND a trampoline; her mam rolled her eyes: «You got a jigsaw and socks, pet.» Molly sulked, then played the jigsaw with everyone, and it was canny — Geordie for nice.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	bragged	brag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mam	mam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
33	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sulked	sulk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	37	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	canny	canny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
47	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Geordie	geordie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **brag** *speech: other* | past | Molly  Cousin in Newcastle |  |  |  |  | about a pony and a laptop and a trampoline | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pony=Topic |
| 2 | **roll** | past | Molly's mam | Molly's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | You | a jigsaw and socks |  |  |  | pet *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jigsaw=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sulk** | past | Molly |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **play** | past | Molly *not said here* | the jigsaw |  |  | then | with everyone | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent jigsaw=Theme with everyone=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | mam |  |  |  |  | Geordie for nice *obl*; canny *property* | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-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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