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title: In London a boy says to Precious, «Saw your mum at the food bank, ha… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: In London a boy says to Precious, «Saw your mum at the food bank, ha!» and a few kids laugh. Who acts: boy, few kids. A sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 12

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In London a boy says to Precious, «Saw your mum at the food bank, ha!» and a few kids laugh.

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**Who acts:** boy, few kids · **What happens:** say, see, laugh · **To what, where:** Precious, London, mum, food bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (boy, few kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:12
# text = In London a boy says to Precious, «Saw your mum at the food bank, ha!» and a few kids laugh.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Precious	Precious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **say** *speech: express* | present | a boy |  | Precious | London |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to precious=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past |  | your mum |  | the food bank |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |
| 3 | **laugh** | present | a few kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R7-rel-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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