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title: In Oxford, Barnaby finds out his friend from the estate gets free sc… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics
description: In Oxford, Barnaby finds out his friend from the estate gets free school meals and says loudly, «That's lucky, free food!» His friend goes red: free meals mean money is hard at home. Who acts: Barnaby, friend, That, free meals. A sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everythi
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 27

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In Oxford, Barnaby finds out his friend from the estate gets free school meals and says loudly, «That's lucky, free food!» His friend goes red: free meals mean money is hard at home.

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**Who acts:** Barnaby, friend, That, free meals, money · **What happens:** find out, get, say, be, go, mean · **To what, where:** Oxford, free school meals, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (Barnaby, friend, That, free meals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:27
# text = In Oxford, Barnaby finds out his friend from the estate gets free school meals and says loudly, «That's lucky, free food!» His friend goes red: free meals mean money is hard at home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Barnaby	Barnaby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
25	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
29	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	_	31	xcomp	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
37	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	ccomp	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **find out** | present | Barnaby |  |  | Oxford |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | present | Barnaby's friend from the estate | free school meals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Barnaby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | Barnaby's friend |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **mean** | present | free meals |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | money |  |  | home |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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