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title: Every Friday Lily's mum's best friend, Auntie Jo, comes round with a… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics
description: Every Friday Lily's mum's best friend, Auntie Jo, comes round with a bag of gossip, and the two of them laugh so loudly in the kitchen that Lily hears it through her pillow. Who acts: best friend, two, Lily. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» of the everyday course
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# Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 0

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Every Friday Lily's mum's best friend, Auntie Jo, comes round with a bag of gossip, and the two of them laugh so loudly in the kitchen that Lily hears it through her pillow.

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**Who acts:** best friend, two, Lily · **What happens:** come round, laugh, hear · **To what, where:** friend, pillow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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 (best friend, two, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:0
# text = Every Friday Lily's mum's best friend, Auntie Jo, comes round with a bag of gossip, and the two of them laugh so loudly in the kitchen that Lily hears it through her pillow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
28	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	hears	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come round** | present | Lily's mum's best friend |  |  |  | friday | with a bag of gossip; round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | present | the two of them |  |  |  |  | in the kitchen; loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Lily | friend |  | Lily's pillow |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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