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title: Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics
description: Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and too rudely). Who acts: gob, Steve. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 10

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Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and too rudely).

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**Who acts:** gob, Steve · **What happens:** be, talk · **To what, where:** mouth

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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 (gob, Steve), 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:10
# text = Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and too rudely).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gob	gob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:dep
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gob	gob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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** *in a quote* | present | a gob | a mouth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | Steve |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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