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title: In Edinburgh, Olivia hears her mam greetin' (Scots for crying) at ni… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Edinburgh, Olivia hears her mam greetin' (Scots for crying) at night since Granny died, and in the morning Mam pretends to be fine. Who acts: Olivia, Granny, Mam. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 19

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In Edinburgh, Olivia hears her mam greetin' (Scots for crying) at night since Granny died, and in the morning Mam pretends to be fine.

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**Who acts:** Olivia, Granny, Mam · **What happens:** hear, die, pretend, be · **To what, where:** mam greetin, Edinburgh

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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 (Olivia, Granny, Mam), 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:19
# text = In Edinburgh, Olivia hears her mam greetin' (Scots for crying) at night since Granny died, and in the morning Mam pretends to be fine.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Olivia	Olivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mam	mam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	greetin	greetin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	crying	crying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound
25	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Olivia | mam greetin |  | Edinburgh | night |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer greetin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** | past | Granny |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **pretend** | present | Mam |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Mam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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