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title: His friend's dad, a pilot, said kindly: «Kids can visit the cockpit… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: His friend's dad, a pilot, said kindly: «Kids can visit the cockpit sometimes, mate, but nobody flies it.» Isaac said «Okay, I sat in the seat when it was parked» — still cool, and he was glad he'd said it. Who acts: dad, Kids, nobody, Isaac. A sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up ho
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# Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 9

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His friend's dad, a pilot, said kindly: «Kids can visit the cockpit sometimes, mate, but nobody flies it.» Isaac said «Okay, I sat in the seat when it was parked» — still cool, and he was glad he'd said it.

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**Who acts:** dad, Kids, nobody, Isaac · **What happens:** say, visit, fly, sit, park, be · **To what, where:** cockpit, seat · **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 (dad, Kids, nobody, Isaac), 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:9
# text = His friend's dad, a pilot, said kindly: «Kids can visit the cockpit sometimes, mate, but nobody flies it.» Isaac said «Okay, I sat in the seat when it was parked» — still cool, and he was glad he'd said it.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cockpit	cockpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
28	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
44	still	still	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	parataxis	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin
53	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | story's friend's dad |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **visit** *in a quote* | can | Kids | the cockpit |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; sometimes *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockpit=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | present | nobody | cockpit |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | Isaac |  |  | the seat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 6 | **park** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | cockpit |  |  |  | cool *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | Isaac |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Isaac | cockpit |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/).

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