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title: Connor's «best mate» Ryan is only his mate at home; at school Ryan's… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: Connor's «best mate» Ryan is only his mate at home; at school Ryan's gang calls him «Con-fused». Who acts: Ryan, gang. 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 20

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Connor's «best mate» Ryan is only his mate at home; at school Ryan's gang calls him «Con-fused».

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**Who acts:** Ryan, gang · **What happens:** be, call, fuse · **To what, where:** mate, home, Ryan, school · **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 (Ryan, gang), 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:20
# text = Connor's «best mate» Ryan is only his mate at home; at school Ryan's gang calls him «Con-fused».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Con	con	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	fused	fuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **is a** | present | Ryan | Ryan's mate |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Ryan's gang | Ryan |  | school |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fuse** *in a quote* | participle | Ryan's gang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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. **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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