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title: Meanwhile in Melbourne, Delphine feels shy at a sleepover in Sienna'… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile in Melbourne, Delphine feels shy at a sleepover in Sienna's huge house, until Sienna grins, «It's just a house, mate.» A good host matters more than the house. Who acts: Delphine, Sienna, house, good host. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours»
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# Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 20

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Meanwhile in Melbourne, Delphine feels shy at a sleepover in Sienna's huge house, until Sienna grins, «It's just a house, mate.» A good host matters more than the house.

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**Who acts:** Delphine, Sienna, house, good host · **What happens:** feel, grin, be, matter · **To what, where:** sleepover, house

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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 (Delphine, Sienna, house, good host), 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:20
# text = Meanwhile in Melbourne, Delphine feels shy at a sleepover in Sienna's huge house, until Sienna grins, «It's just a house, mate.» A good host matters more than the house.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Delphine	Delphine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	grins	grin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **feel** | present | Delphine |  |  | a sleepover in Sienna's huge house |  | mate *vocative*; meanwhile, shy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grin** | present | Sienna |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | house | a house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **matter** | present | a good host |  |  |  |  | than the house | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:20`.

**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): 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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