--- title: Gary moans about everything, the boss, the weather, the referee, but… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics description: Gary moans about everything, the boss, the weather, the referee, but when Dad's car breaks down at midnight, Gary drives forty minutes to fetch him. Who acts: Gary, car. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gary, car), 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:11 # text = Gary moans about everything, the boss, the weather, the referee, but when Dad's car breaks down at midnight, Gary drives forty minutes to fetch him. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Gary Gary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 moans moan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 17 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 25 Gary Gary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 27 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **moan** | present | Gary | | | | | about everything | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic | | 2 | **break down** | present | Dad's car | | | | midnight | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **drive** | present | Gary | | | | minute | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Gary *not said here* | Gary | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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