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title: In Edinburgh, Otto's dad hardly talks, but every Sunday he takes Ott… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: In Edinburgh, Otto's dad hardly talks, but every Sunday he takes Otto fishing by the loch (Scots for lake). Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 26

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In Edinburgh, Otto's dad hardly talks, but every Sunday he takes Otto fishing by the loch (Scots for lake).

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**Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** talk, take, fish · **To what, where:** Otto, Edinburgh

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (dad), 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:26
# text = In Edinburgh, Otto's dad hardly talks, but every Sunday he takes Otto fishing by the loch (Scots for lake).
# 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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
4	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
15	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loch	loch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
21	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:appos
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **talk** | present | Otto's dad |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present | Dad | Otto |  | Edinburgh | sunday | Scots for lake *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fish** | gerund | Dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the loch | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by loch=Location |

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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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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