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title: In Manchester, Lettie's mum is slurring her words and stumbling at t… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Manchester, Lettie's mum is slurring her words and stumbling at tea time, and she forgets Lettie's school play. Who acts: mum, Lettie. 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 p
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 14

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In Manchester, Lettie's mum is slurring her words and stumbling at tea time, and she forgets Lettie's school play.

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**Who acts:** mum, Lettie · **What happens:** slur, stumble, forget, word, play · **To what, where:** words, Manchester, school play

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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, Lettie), 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:14
# text = In Manchester, Lettie's mum is slurring her words and stumbling at tea time, and she forgets Lettie's school play.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Lettie	Lettie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	slurring	slur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	forgets	forget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	Lettie	Lettie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **slur** | present · progressive | Lettie's mum | mum's words |  | Manchester |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stumble** | gerund | Lettie's mum *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | present | mum | Lettie's school play |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  | mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **play** |  | Lettie |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication 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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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