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title: Maddie's nan and Mrs Dobbs haven't spoken for twenty years («She kno… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie's nan and Mrs Dobbs haven't spoken for twenty years («She knows what she did», nobody else does). Who acts: nan, Mrs, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Feuds between families, sentence 13

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Maddie's nan and Mrs Dobbs haven't spoken for twenty years («She knows what she did», nobody else does).

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**Who acts:** nan, Mrs, nobody · **What happens:** not speak, know, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (nan, Mrs, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:13
# text = Maddie's nan and Mrs Dobbs haven't spoken for twenty years («She knows what she did», nobody else does).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 474-feuds-between-families.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Dobbs	Dobbs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Maddie's nan and Mrs |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Mrs |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Mrs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:474-feuds-between-families.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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