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title: When Sam cries about Grandad, she puts her heavy grey chin on his la… — The pet that loves you most · tree and pragmatics
description: When Sam cries about Grandad, she puts her heavy grey chin on his lap and just stays there. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The pet that loves you most, sentence 2

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When Sam cries about Grandad, she puts her heavy grey chin on his lap and just stays there.

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**Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** cry, put, stay · **To what, where:** heavy grey chin, lap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» 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 (Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:2
# text = When Sam cries about Grandad, she puts her heavy grey chin on his lap and just stays there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
11	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Sam |  |  |  |  | about Grandad | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about grandad=Topic |
| 2 | **put** | present | Sam | Sam's heavy grey chin |  | Grandad's lap |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chin=Theme on lap=Destination |
| 3 | **stay** | present | Sam *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:2`.

**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, 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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