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title: By Monday Lily is saying «howay» at home and her mum is baffled. — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: By Monday Lily is saying «howay» at home and her mum is baffled. Who acts: Lily. 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.
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# Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 5

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By Monday Lily is saying «howay» at home and her mum is baffled.

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**Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** say, baffle · **To what, where:** home, mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lily), 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:5
# text = By Monday Lily is saying «howay» at home and her mum is baffled.
# 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): no change
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Lily	lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	howay	howay	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	baffled	baffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Lily |  |  | home | monday | howay *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **baffle** | present · passive |  | Lily's mum |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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