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title: And Lily's mum admits there's a woman at work who's sweet in the kit… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: And Lily's mum admits there's a woman at work who's sweet in the kitchen and moans about her in meetings: «Grown-ups have frenemies too, pet.» Who acts: mum, woman, work, Grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 22

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And Lily's mum admits there's a woman at work who's sweet in the kitchen and moans about her in meetings: «Grown-ups have frenemies too, pet.»

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**Who acts:** mum, woman, work, Grown ups · **What happens:** admit, be, moan, have · **To what, where:** kitchen, meetings, frenemies · **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 (mum, woman, work, Grown ups), 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:22
# text = And Lily's mum admits there's a woman at work who's sweet in the kitchen and moans about her in meetings: «Grown-ups have frenemies too, pet.»
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	admits	admit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	moans	moan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
26	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	frenemies	frenemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:vocative
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
35	»	»	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 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Lily's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | a woman at work |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | work |  |  | the kitchen |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **moan** | present | work *not said here* |  |  | meetings |  | about mum | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Grown ups | frenemies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenemy=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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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