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title: Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word. — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word. Who acts: Maddie. 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 27

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Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word.

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**Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** not follow, twang · **To what, where:** word

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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 (Maddie), 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:27
# text = Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word.
# 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): no change
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Aussie	aussie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	twang	twang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** | can | Maddie with Maddie's new Aussie twang | a word |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **twang** |  | Maddie |  |  |  |  |  | nom twang «event transitive»: 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:27`.

**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): no change. **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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