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title: Kirsty in Aberdeen hid her dad's car keys so he'd «look for ages» —… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics
description: Kirsty in Aberdeen hid her dad's car keys so he'd «look for ages» — he was late and nearly missed a job interview. Who acts: Kirsty, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Funny pranks, sentence 17

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Kirsty in Aberdeen hid her dad's car keys so he'd «look for ages» — he was late and nearly missed a job interview.

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**Who acts:** Kirsty, dad · **What happens:** hide, look, be, miss · **To what, where:** car keys, job interview

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» 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 (Kirsty, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:438-funny-pranks.lesson:17
# text = Kirsty in Aberdeen hid her dad's car keys so he'd «look for ages» — he was late and nearly missed a job interview.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 438-funny-pranks.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): no change
1	Kirsty	Kirsty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hide** | past | Kirsty in Aberdeen | Kirsty's dad's car keys |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | would | dad |  |  |  | for ages |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for age=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | dad |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **miss** | past | dad *not said here* | a job interview |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer interview=Stimulus |

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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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**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:438-funny-pranks.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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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