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title: In Glasgow, Kyle says «gimme the ketchup» at a mate's house, and the… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: In Glasgow, Kyle says «gimme the ketchup» at a mate's house, and the dad says, «Whit's the magic word, son?» («whit» is Scots for what). Who acts: Kyle, dad, Whit. A sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 27

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In Glasgow, Kyle says «gimme the ketchup» at a mate's house, and the dad says, «Whit's the magic word, son?» («whit» is Scots for what).

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**Who acts:** Kyle, dad, Whit · **What happens:** say, gimme, be · **To what, where:** Glasgow, ketchup, house, magic word, Scots · **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 (Kyle, dad, Whit), 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:27
# text = In Glasgow, Kyle says «gimme the ketchup» at a mate's house, and the dad says, «Whit's the magic word, son?» («whit» is Scots for what).
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gimme	gimme	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
23	Whit	whit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nmod	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kyle |  |  | Glasgow |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gimme** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the ketchup |  | a mate's house |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | the dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Whit | the magic word |  |  |  | son *vocative* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | whit | Scots |  |  |  | for the magic word | 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:27`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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