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title: In Swansea Lily's cousin tells the local kids, «This is Lily, be nic… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics
description: In Swansea Lily's cousin tells the local kids, «This is Lily, be nice, she's lush» — Welsh for lovely. Who acts: cousin, This. A sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 16

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In Swansea Lily's cousin tells the local kids, «This is Lily, be nice, she's lush» — Welsh for lovely.

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**Who acts:** cousin, This · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** local kids, Swansea, Lily · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (cousin, This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:16
# text = In Swansea Lily's cousin tells the local kids, «This is Lily, be nice, she's lush» — Welsh for lovely.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Swansea	Swansea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
12	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	lush	lush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Lily's cousin |  | the local kids and Lily | Swansea |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | Lily |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cousin | the local kids and Lily *not said here* |  |  |  | for lovely; lush *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | cousin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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): R6-punct-agree ×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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