--- title: In Brisbane, Ty's mum never asks about his day, so after school, eve… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: In Brisbane, Ty's mum never asks about his day, so after school, every arvo («arvo» is Aussie for afternoon), he tells his teacher everything instead. Who acts: mum, arvo, Aussie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mum, arvo, Aussie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:22 # text = In Brisbane, Ty's mum never asks about his day, so after school, every arvo («arvo» is Aussie for afternoon), he tells his teacher everything instead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Brisbane Brisbane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Ty Ty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advcl 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 Aussie Aussie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 iobj _ _ 33 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obj _ _ 34 instead instead ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ty's mum | | | Brisbane | day | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | arvo | Aussie | | | afternoon | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Aussie | every arvo | Aussie's teacher | | after school | instead *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient everything=Topic | 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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:22`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/21/) - next →: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/)