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title: Mia's cousins' chat is one long row about who hosts Thanksgiving, wi… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia's cousins' chat is one long row about who hosts Thanksgiving, with aunties writing in capital letters, and her phone buzzes 200 times a day. Who acts: chat, one long row, aunties, phone. A sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 15

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Mia's cousins' chat is one long row about who hosts Thanksgiving, with aunties writing in capital letters, and her phone buzzes 200 times a day.

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**Who acts:** chat, one long row, aunties, phone, cousins · **What happens:** be, host, write, buzz, chat · **To what, where:** one long row, Thanksgiving, capital letters

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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 (chat, one long row, aunties, phone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:15
# text = Mia's cousins' chat is one long row about who hosts Thanksgiving, with aunties writing in capital letters, and her phone buzzes 200 times a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hosts	host	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	aunties	auntie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	buzzes	buzz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Mia's cousins's chat | one long row |  |  |  | with aunties | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | present | one long row |  | Thanksgiving |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **write** | gerund | aunties *not said here* |  |  | capital letters |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in letter=Destination |
| 4 | **buzz** | present | Thanksgiving's phone |  |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **chat** |  | Mia's cousins |  |  |  |  |  | nom chat «communication intransitive»: poss=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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