--- title: In Dublin a woman told Oisin she was a «talent scout» and he could b… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: In Dublin a woman told Oisin she was a «talent scout» and he could be on telly: «Just give me your address and your mam's number — don't tell her, it's a surprise.» Oisin told his mam straight away. Who acts: woman, Oisin, shopkeeper, your. 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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 (woman, Oisin, shopkeeper, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:14 # text = In Dublin a woman told Oisin she was a «talent scout» and he could be on telly: «Just give me your address and your mam's number — don't tell her, it's a surprise.» Oisin told his mam straight away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 446-a-strangers-story.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Oisin Oisin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 iobj _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 talent talent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 scout scout NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 telly telly NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 32 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Oisin Oisin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 iobj _ _ 48 straight straight ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 away away ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a woman | | Oisin | Dublin | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oisin=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | woman | a talent scout and telly and a surprise | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | could | Oisin | | | telly | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your address and your mam's number | Grace | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient address=Theme | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | woman | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | shopkeeper | a surprise | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Oisin | | Oisin's mam | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient | | 8 | **address** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:14`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [A stranger's story, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/13/) - next →: [A stranger's story, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/)