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title: On day two she says, «Y'all wanna come over Saturday?» — «y'all» is… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: On day two she says, «Y'all wanna come over Saturday?» — «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». Who acts: Texas, Y'all. A sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How best friends start, sentence 16

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On day two she says, «Y'all wanna come over Saturday?» — «y'all» is Southern US for «you all».

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**Who acts:** Texas, Y'all · **What happens:** say, come, be · **To what, where:** Southern US · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» 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 (Texas, Y'all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:16
# text = On day two she says, «Y'all wanna come over Saturday?» — «y'all» is Southern US for «you all».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 461-how-best-friends-start.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Y'all	y'all	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	y'all	y'all	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Texas |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Y'all |  |  |  | saturday |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | y'all | Southern US |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |

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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:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:16`.

**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): 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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