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title: «Nah, sorry» is a full answer; you don't have to give reasons to a p… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: «Nah, sorry» is a full answer; you don't have to give reasons to a pushy older kid. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The older kid's «trade», sentence 40

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«Nah, sorry» is a full answer; you don't have to give reasons to a pushy older kid.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, not have, give · **To what, where:** full answer, reasons, pushy older kid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:40
# text = «Nah, sorry» is a full answer; you don't have to give reasons to a pushy older kid.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 445-the-older-kids-trade.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
2	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	pushy	pushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **is a** | present |  | a full answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | reasons | a pushy older kid |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Theme to kid=Recipient |

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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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:40`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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