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title: In Norwich, Frida's mum hands her friend Lacey a bag of Frida's old… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics
description: In Norwich, Frida's mum hands her friend Lacey a bag of Frida's old clothes in front of everyone, and Lacey goes quiet. Who acts: mum, Lacey. A sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 29

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In Norwich, Frida's mum hands her friend Lacey a bag of Frida's old clothes in front of everyone, and Lacey goes quiet.

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**Who acts:** mum, Lacey · **What happens:** hand, go · **To what, where:** bag, friend, Norwich

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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 (mum, Lacey), 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:29
# text = In Norwich, Frida's mum hands her friend Lacey a bag of Frida's old clothes in front of everyone, and Lacey goes quiet.
# 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	Norwich	Norwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	Frida	Frida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
10	Lacey	Lacey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Frida	Frida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Lacey	Lacey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | present | Frida's mum | a bag of Frida's old clothes | mum's friend | Norwich |  | in front of everyone | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Destination bag=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | Lacey |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:29`.

**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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