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title: In Seattle, Bertie wins a science prize; Dad says, «Cool,» and goes… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: In Seattle, Bertie wins a science prize; Dad says, «Cool,» and goes back to his game. Who acts: Bertie, 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 8

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In Seattle, Bertie wins a science prize; Dad says, «Cool,» and goes back to his game.

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**Who acts:** Bertie, Dad · **What happens:** win, say, go back · **To what, where:** science prize, Seattle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bertie, 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:8
# text = In Seattle, Bertie wins a science prize; Dad says, «Cool,» and goes back to his game.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Bertie	Bertie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **win** | present | Bertie | a science prize |  | Seattle |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go back** | present | Bertie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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): 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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