--- title: His best mate Tom spots it, says nothing, swaps sleeping bags and sp… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics description: His best mate Tom spots it, says nothing, swaps sleeping bags and spills a drink «by accident» on the wet one. Who acts: best mate. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sleepovers and inside jokes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/) / 22 # Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 22 His best mate Tom spots it, says nothing, swaps sleeping bags and spills a drink «by accident» on the wet one. **Who acts:** best mate · **What happens:** spot, say, swap, spill · **To what, where:** bed, nothing, sleeping bags, drink · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 (best mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:22 # text = His best mate Tom spots it, says nothing, swaps sleeping bags and spills a drink «by accident» on the wet one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 spots spot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 11 swaps swap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 spills spill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | present | Kieran's best mate | bed | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kieran's best mate *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 3 | **swap** | present | Kieran's best mate *not said here* | sleeping bags | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 4 | **spill** | present | Kieran's best mate *not said here* | a drink | | | | on the wet one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drink=Theme | 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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:22`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/21/) - next →: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/)