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title: In Cardiff, Carys's mum works long shifts and falls asleep on the so… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Cardiff, Carys's mum works long shifts and falls asleep on the sofa at seven every night, still in her uniform. Who acts: mum. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 1

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In Cardiff, Carys's mum works long shifts and falls asleep on the sofa at seven every night, still in her uniform.

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**Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** work, fall · **To what, where:** long shifts, Cardiff, sofa

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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 (mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:1
# text = In Cardiff, Carys's mum works long shifts and falls asleep on the sofa at seven every night, still in her uniform.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Carys	Carys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **work** | present | Carys's mum | long shifts |  | Cardiff |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent shift=Material |
| 2 | **fall** | present | Carys's mum *not said here* |  |  | the sofa | night | at seven; in mum's uniform; asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sofa=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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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