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title: In Essex, where screens and sweets are strictly limited, Albie eats… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: In Essex, where screens and sweets are strictly limited, Albie eats a whole bag of sweets at his mate's and is sick on the way home; now he knows why Mum's strict. Who acts: Albie. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 26

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In Essex, where screens and sweets are strictly limited, Albie eats a whole bag of sweets at his mate's and is sick on the way home; now he knows why Mum's strict.

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**Who acts:** Albie · **What happens:** eat, be, know · **To what, where:** whole bag, Essex, way, Mum

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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 (Albie), 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:26
# text = In Essex, where screens and sweets are strictly limited, Albie eats a whole bag of sweets at his mate's and is sick on the way home; now he knows why Mum's strict.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Essex	Essex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
5	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:cop
9	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	Albie	Albie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
34	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
37	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **eat** | present | Albie | a whole bag of sweets |  | Essex |  | at Albie's mate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Albie *not said here* |  |  | the way |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | Albie |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | Mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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