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title: In Hull, Angus's dad stays in bed for days with the curtains shut: «… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Hull, Angus's dad stays in bed for days with the curtains shut: «Sorry, mate, just tired.» In Brisbane, Rafferty's mum stays in her room, so every arvo (afternoon) and evening he makes toast for himself and his little sister. Who acts: dad, curtains, mum, mate. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sa
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 9

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In Hull, Angus's dad stays in bed for days with the curtains shut: «Sorry, mate, just tired.» In Brisbane, Rafferty's mum stays in her room, so every arvo (afternoon) and evening he makes toast for himself and his little sister.

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**Who acts:** dad, curtains, mum, mate · **What happens:** stay, shut, make · **To what, where:** Hull, Brisbane, toast

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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, curtains, mum, mate), 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:9
# text = In Hull, Angus's dad stays in bed for days with the curtains shut: «Sorry, mate, just tired.» In Brisbane, Rafferty's mum stays in her room, so every arvo (afternoon) and evening he makes toast for himself and his little sister.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Hull	Hull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Angus	Angus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
26	In	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	Rafferty	Rafferty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
47	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **stay** | present | Angus's dad |  |  | Hull | day | in bed | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut** | participle | the curtains |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stay** | present | Rafferty's mum |  |  | Brisbane |  | in mum's room | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brisbane=Location |
| 4 | **make** | present | mate | toast |  |  |  | for mate | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent toast=Material for himself=Beneficiary |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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