--- title: In Toronto, kids ask Jasper to buy them snacks every day, and he does. — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics description: In Toronto, kids ask Jasper to buy them snacks every day, and he does. Who acts: kids, 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 every clause. --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 6 In Toronto, kids ask Jasper to buy them snacks every day, and he does. **Who acts:** kids, kid · **What happens:** ask, buy, do · **To what, where:** Jasper, Toronto, snacks, friends 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 (kids, 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:6 # text = In Toronto, kids ask Jasper to buy them snacks every day, and he does. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Jasper Jasper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 snacks snack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | kids | | Jasper | Toronto | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent jasper=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | kids *not said here* | snacks | friends *= friend* | | day | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary snack=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present | kid | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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