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title: In London, Anya mentions skiing in Switzerland and a girl says, «Sto… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: In London, Anya mentions skiing in Switzerland and a girl says, «Stop flexing» («flexing» means showing off). Who acts: Anya, girl. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 14

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In London, Anya mentions skiing in Switzerland and a girl says, «Stop flexing» («flexing» means showing off).

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**Who acts:** Anya, girl · **What happens:** mention, say, stop, flex, mean, show off · **To what, where:** skiing, London · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (Anya, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:14
# text = In London, Anya mentions skiing in Switzerland and a girl says, «Stop flexing» («flexing» means showing off).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Anya	Anya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	skiing	skiing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	flexing	flex	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	flexing	flex	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
23	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
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 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | Anya | skiing |  | London |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent skiing=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **flex** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **flex** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **show off** *not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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