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title: In Melbourne, Tasha can't afford a birthday present and makes a frie… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: In Melbourne, Tasha can't afford a birthday present and makes a friendship bracelet; the birthday girl wears it all day. Who acts: Tasha, birthday girl. 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 a
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# Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 28

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In Melbourne, Tasha can't afford a birthday present and makes a friendship bracelet; the birthday girl wears it all day.

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**Who acts:** Tasha, birthday girl · **What happens:** not afford, make, wear · **To what, where:** birthday present, Melbourne, friendship bracelet, bracelet

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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 (Tasha, birthday girl), 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:28
# text = In Melbourne, Tasha can't afford a birthday present and makes a friendship bracelet; the birthday girl wears it all day.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Tasha	Tasha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **afford** | can | Tasha | a birthday present |  | Melbourne |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | Tasha *not said here* | a friendship bracelet |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bracelet=Product |
| 3 | **wear** | present | the birthday girl | bracelet |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:28`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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