--- title: Mila in Auckland really did swim with dolphins, but nobody believed… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Mila in Auckland really did swim with dolphins, but nobody believed her: «You said you met a mermaid last year.» She had to show a photo from her mum's phone. Who acts: Mila, nobody, You. 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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 (Mila, nobody, 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:12 # text = Mila in Auckland really did swim with dolphins, but nobody believed her: «You said you met a mermaid last year.» She had to show a photo from her mum's phone. # 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 Mila Mila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 nsubj _ _ 12 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 26 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | past · do-support | Mila in Auckland | | | | | with dolphins | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with dolphin=Theme | | 2 | **believe** | past | nobody | Mila | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | You | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | you | a mermaid | | | year | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Co-Agent | | 5 | **have** | past | Mila | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | Mila *not said here* | a photo | | Mila's mum's phone | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=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. 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