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title: Bella tells the class that Chloe's dad is in prison; really he works… — The kid who has it in for you · tree and pragmatics
description: Bella tells the class that Chloe's dad is in prison; really he works on oil rigs in the North Sea and is away for weeks at a time. Who acts: Bella, dad. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The kid who has it in for you, sentence 8

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Bella tells the class that Chloe's dad is in prison; really he works on oil rigs in the North Sea and is away for weeks at a time.

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**Who acts:** Bella, dad · **What happens:** tell, be, work · **To what, where:** class, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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 (Bella, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:8
# text = Bella tells the class that Chloe's dad is in prison; really he works on oil rigs in the North Sea and is away for weeks at a time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.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): no change
1	Bella	Bella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rigs	rig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Bella | the class |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Chloe's dad |  |  | prison |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | Bella |  |  |  |  | on oil rigs in the North Sea | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on rig=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Bella *not said here* |  |  |  | time; week | away *property* | 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:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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