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title: Lily's mum checks that «sketchy_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, a… — The friend in the game you never met, and the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily's mum checks that «sketchy_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, and the girls swap drawings by post. Who acts: mum, sketchy scot, girls. A sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend, sentence 20

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Lily's mum checks that «sketchy\_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, and the girls swap drawings by post.

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**Who acts:** mum, sketchy scot, girls · **What happens:** check, be, swap · **To what, where:** real girl, Inverness, drawings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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, sketchy scot, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.lesson:20
# text = Lily's mum checks that «sketchy_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, and the girls swap drawings by post.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.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
1	Lily	lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	sketchy	sketchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	scot	scot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Inverness	Inverness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **check** | present | Lily's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | sketchy scot | a real girl |  | Inverness |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swap** | present | the girls | drawings |  |  |  | by post | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme |

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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:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.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): R5-strong ×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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