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title: At a sleepover in Kent, Leo-Ray burns the toast because at home staf… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: At a sleepover in Kent, Leo-Ray burns the toast because at home staff always made it, and everyone laughs; he laughs too, then asks his friend's mum to show him. Who acts: Leo, home staff, everyone, staff. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the
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# Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 27

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At a sleepover in Kent, Leo-Ray burns the toast because at home staff always made it, and everyone laughs; he laughs too, then asks his friend's mum to show him.

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**Who acts:** Leo, home staff, everyone, staff · **What happens:** burn, make, laugh, ask, show · **To what, where:** toast, sleepover, mum, staff

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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 (Leo, home staff, everyone, staff), 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:27
# text = At a sleepover in Kent, Leo-Ray burns the toast because at home staff always made it, and everyone laughs; he laughs too, then asks his friend's mum to show him.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kent	Kent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Ray	Ray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
23	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **burn** | present | Leo | the toast |  | a sleepover in Kent |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toast=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | home staff | toast |  |  |  | always *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **laugh** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | present | staff |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | staff *not said here* |  | staff's friend's mum |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | staff *not said here* |  | staff |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:27`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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