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title: Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases an… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases anyone in shorts. Who acts: grandma, cockerel. A sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 20

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Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases anyone in shorts.

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**Who acts:** grandma, cockerel · **What happens:** have, call, chase · **To what, where:** cockerel, anyone, shorts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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 (grandma, cockerel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:20
# text = Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases anyone in shorts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cockerel	cockerel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Colonel	Colonel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	shorts	short	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mia's grandma in Georgia | a cockerel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockerel=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a cockerel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chase** | present | a cockerel | anyone |  | shorts |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme in short=Trajectory |

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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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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