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title: In Newcastle, Mam's new boyfriend calls Romilly names and blames her… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Newcastle, Mam's new boyfriend calls Romilly names and blames her for everything, and Mam says nothing. Who acts: new boyfriend, 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 its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 24

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In Newcastle, Mam's new boyfriend calls Romilly names and blames her for everything, and Mam says nothing.

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**Who acts:** new boyfriend, Mam · **What happens:** call, blame, say · **To what, where:** Romilly names, Newcastle, boyfriend, nothing · **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 (new boyfriend, 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:24
# text = In Newcastle, Mam's new boyfriend calls Romilly names and blames her for everything, and Mam says nothing.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Romilly	Romilly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blames	blame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **call** | present | Mam's new boyfriend | Romilly names |  | Newcastle |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 2 | **blame** | present | Mam's new boyfriend *not said here* | boyfriend |  |  |  | for everything | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for everything=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mam | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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:24`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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