--- title: They laugh till they cry, and Lily starts a list of Aussie words. — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics description: They laugh till they cry, and Lily starts a list of Aussie words. Who acts: toilets, Lily. A sentence of the lesson «The best friend who moves away» 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/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/7/) [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/) / [The best friend who moves away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/) / 7 # The best friend who moves away, sentence 7 They laugh till they cry, and Lily starts a list of Aussie words. **Who acts:** toilets, Lily · **What happens:** laugh, cry, start, list · **To what, where:** list, Aussie words This is a sentence of the lesson «The best friend who moves away» 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 (toilets, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.lesson:7 # text = They laugh till they cry, and Lily starts a list of Aussie words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.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 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 till till SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 Aussie aussie ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | toilets *= toilet* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | toilets *= toilet* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | present | Lily | a list of Aussie words | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Eventuality | | 4 | **list** | | | Aussie words | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away.lesson:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [The best friend who moves away, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/5/) - next →: [The best friend who moves away, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/)