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title: On Sam's birthday there's a free lolly: «Ten already? — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: On Sam's birthday there's a free lolly: «Ten already? Who acts: free lolly. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 8

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On Sam's birthday there's a free lolly: «Ten already?

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**Who acts:** free lolly · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** birthday

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (free lolly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:8
# text = On Sam's birthday there's a free lolly: «Ten already?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lolly	lolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
13	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **be** | present | a free lolly |  |  | Sam's birthday; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location |

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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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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