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title: In Bristol, since he lost his job, Jem's dad watches telly all day,… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Bristol, since he lost his job, Jem's dad watches telly all day, doesn't wash and snaps at everyone; Jem's mate says, «Your dad's gert mardy» (Bristol «gert» = very, «mardy» = grumpy). Who acts: dad, mate, gert. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of th
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 10

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In Bristol, since he lost his job, Jem's dad watches telly all day, doesn't wash and snaps at everyone; Jem's mate says, «Your dad's gert mardy» (Bristol «gert» = very, «mardy» = grumpy).

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**Who acts:** dad, mate, gert · **What happens:** lose, watch, not wash, snap, say, mardy · **To what, where:** job, telly, Bristol, everyone, » · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dad, mate, gert), 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:10
# text = In Bristol, since he lost his job, Jem's dad watches telly all day, doesn't wash and snaps at everyone; Jem's mate says, «Your dad's gert mardy» (Bristol «gert» = very, «mardy» = grumpy).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	telly	telly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	gert	gert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	mardy	mardy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
37	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Bristol	bristol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
41	gert	gert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
42	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	«	«	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	mardy	mardy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
48	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	50	case	_	_
50	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl	_	_
51	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | dad | dad's job |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **watch** | present | Jem's dad | telly |  | Bristol | day |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telly=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **wash** | present · do-support | Jem's dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snap** | present | Jem's dad *not said here* |  |  | everyone |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at everyone=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jem's mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mardy** *in a quote* | infinitive | Your dad's gert | » |  |  |  | Bristol *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **gert** *in a quote* | infinitive | Your dad's gert *not said here* | » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **mardy** *in a quote* | infinitive | Jem's dad *not said here* | » |  |  |  | = grumpy | tree rules |
| 9 | **job** |  | dad |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:10`.

**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 ×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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