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title: The friend whispers, «Your dad's wild.» Marquis just laughs; he's us… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: The friend whispers, «Your dad's wild.» Marquis just laughs; he's used to it and kinda likes the order. Who acts: friend, dad, Marquis. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 16

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The friend whispers, «Your dad's wild.» Marquis just laughs; he's used to it and kinda likes the order.

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**Who acts:** friend, dad, Marquis · **What happens:** whisper, be, laugh, use, like · **To what, where:** Marquis, friend, order · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (friend, dad, Marquis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:16
# text = The friend whispers, «Your dad's wild.» Marquis just laughs; he's used to it and kinda likes the order.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
3	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	case	_	_
6	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | the friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your dad |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | present | Marquis |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | present · passive |  | Marquis | friend |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **like** | present |  | the order |  |  |  | kinda *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot order=Theme |

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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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:16`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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