--- title: After hearing a kid call him «mid» (boring), Monty in Los Angeles de… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics description: After hearing a kid call him «mid» (boring), Monty in Los Angeles decides to test his friends. Who acts: Monty, kid. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/0/) [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/) / [Friends who only come for the pool: ri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/) / 0 # Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 0 After hearing a kid call him «mid» (boring), Monty in Los Angeles decides to test his friends. **Who acts:** Monty, kid · **What happens:** hear, call, decide, test · **To what, where:** kid, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (Monty, kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:0 # text = After hearing a kid call him «mid» (boring), Monty in Los Angeles decides to test his friends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.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 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 mid mid X AFX _ 5 obj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 boring boring NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 13 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 14 Monty Monty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Los Los PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Angeles Angeles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | Monty in Los Angeles *not said here* | a kid | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | infinitive | a kid *not said here* | kid | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme mid=Result | | 3 | **decide** | present | Monty in Los Angeles | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **test** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Monty in Los Angeles *not said here* | Monty's friends | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | 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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:0`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Rich families: the big house, the nann…, 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/40/) - next →: [Friends who only come for the pool: ri…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/)