--- title: In Denver, Ned asks why they haven't got a pool like his friend Madd… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics description: In Denver, Ned asks why they haven't got a pool like his friend Maddox. Who acts: Ned, families. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Comfortable families: enough, but not…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/) / 7 # Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 7 In Denver, Ned asks why they haven't got a pool like his friend Maddox. **Who acts:** Ned, families · **What happens:** ask, not get · **To what, where:** Denver, pool · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ned, families), 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:7 # text = In Denver, Ned asks why they haven't got a pool like his friend Maddox. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Denver Denver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Ned Ned PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 Maddox Maddox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ned | | | Denver | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **get** | present · perfect | families *= family* | a pool | | | | like Ned's friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pool=Stimulus | 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. **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:7`. **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): no change. **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. 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