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title: «Chill, it's a joke,» says Harper — and deletes it only after Mia's… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: «Chill, it's a joke,» says Harper — and deletes it only after Mia's mum talks to Harper's mum. Who acts: photo, Harper, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 13

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«Chill, it's a joke,» says Harper — and deletes it only after Mia's mum talks to Harper's mum.

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**Who acts:** photo, Harper, mum · **What happens:** be, say, delete, talk · **To what, where:** joke, photo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (photo, Harper, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:13
# text = «Chill, it's a joke,» says Harper — and deletes it only after Mia's mum talks to Harper's mum.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	Chill	Chill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Harper	Harper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	deletes	delete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Harper	Harper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | photo | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Harper |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **delete** | present | Harper *not said here* | photo |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** | present | Mia's mum |  |  |  |  | to Harper's mum | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mum=Co-Agent |

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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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:13`.

**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): R8-pos-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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