--- title: «It's giving zero interest,» Bertie mutters («it's giving» means it… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: «It's giving zero interest,» Bertie mutters («it's giving» means it looks like). Who acts: prize, Bertie. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Cold parents: always on the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/) / 9 # Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 9 «It's giving zero interest,» Bertie mutters («it's giving» means it looks like). **Who acts:** prize, Bertie · **What happens:** give, mutter, mean, look · **To what, where:** zero interest · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (prize, Bertie), 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:9 # text = «It's giving zero interest,» Bertie mutters («it's giving» means it looks like). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 zero zero NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Bertie Bertie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 mutters mutter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 nsubj _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 19 advcl _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | prize | zero interest | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | | 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | present | Bertie | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | prize | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **look** | present | prize | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/8/) - next →: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/)