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title: Mum plays along: «Tell Rab tae hoover, then.» Imaginary brothers and… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum plays along: «Tell Rab tae hoover, then.» Imaginary brothers and friends are common and healthy. Who acts: Mum, Imaginary brothers. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The only child: a quiet house, sentence 11

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Mum plays along: «Tell Rab tae hoover, then.» Imaginary brothers and friends are common and healthy.

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**Who acts:** Mum, Imaginary brothers · **What happens:** play along, tell, hoover, be · **To what, where:** Rab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» 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, Imaginary brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:11
# text = Mum plays along: «Tell Rab tae hoover, then.» Imaginary brothers and friends are common and healthy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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 ×2
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
7	Rab	Rab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	mark	_	_
9	hoover	hoover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	Imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **play along** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Rab |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rab=Recipient |
| 3 | **hoover** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Imaginary brothers and friends |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Imaginary brothers and friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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