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title: «obvs. bingo ladies.» Sam's dog Scout waits at the door at 3.40 ever… — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: «obvs. bingo ladies.» Sam's dog Scout waits at the door at 3.40 every day, tail going like a windscreen wiper on full. Who acts: dog, tail. A sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What a real friend is, sentence 22

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«obvs. bingo ladies.» Sam's dog Scout waits at the door at 3.40 every day, tail going like a windscreen wiper on full.

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**Who acts:** dog, tail · **What happens:** wait, go · **To what, where:** door

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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 (dog, tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:22
# text = «obvs. bingo ladies.» Sam's dog Scout waits at the door at 3.40 every day, tail going like a windscreen wiper on full.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 485-what-a-real-friend-is.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	obvs	obv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	dep	_	_
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	bingo	bingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Scout	scout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	3.40	3.40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	wiper	wiper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **wait** | present | Sam's dog |  |  | the door | day | at 3.40 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | tail |  |  |  |  | like a windscreen wiper on full | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:22`.

**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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