--- title: «Sure the cake was stale!» At a christening they end up singing toge… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: «Sure the cake was stale!» At a christening they end up singing together, crying, and it's over. Who acts: cake, grannies. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Feuds between families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/) / 17 # Feuds between families, sentence 17 «Sure the cake was stale!» At a christening they end up singing together, crying, and it's over. **Who acts:** cake, grannies · **What happens:** be, end up, sing, cry · **To what, where:** christening · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cake, grannies), 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:17 # text = «Sure the cake was stale!» At a christening they end up singing together, crying, and it's over. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 2 Sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 stale stale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 9 At at ADP IN _ 11 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 christening christening NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 2 ccomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the cake | | | | | stale *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **end up** | present | grannies *= grannie* | | | a christening | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | grannies *= grannie* *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | grannies *= grannie* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | cake | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Feuds between families, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/16/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)