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title: At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooki… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics
description: At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone. Who acts: friend, Mum. 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 15

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At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone.

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**Who acts:** friend, Mum · **What happens:** make, cook · **To what, where:** nasty joke, barbecue

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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 (friend, Mum), 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:15
# text = At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone.
# 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 ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
7	Phil	Phil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **make** | present | Dad's friend | a nasty joke |  | a barbecue |  | about Mum's cooking; in front of everyone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product |
| 2 | **cook** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom cooking «act 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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**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:15`.

**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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