--- title: Mam says, «We can't do a present for that.» Aoife says, «Wee card th… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics description: Mam says, «We can't do a present for that.» Aoife says, «Wee card then» («wee» means small). Who acts: Mam, We, Aoife, wee. 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 --- [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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 26 Mam says, «We can't do a present for that.» Aoife says, «Wee card then» («wee» means small). **Who acts:** Mam, We, Aoife, wee · **What happens:** say, not do, mean · **To what, where:** present · **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 (Mam, We, Aoife, wee), 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:26 # text = Mam says, «We can't do a present for that.» Aoife says, «Wee card then» («wee» means small). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mam mam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Aoife Aoife PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | can | We | a present | | | | for that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Aoife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | wee | | | | | small *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:26`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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