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title: On holiday in Spain, Kwabena from Croydon is the only kid in his fam… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics
description: On holiday in Spain, Kwabena from Croydon is the only kid in his family; Mum and Dad want to read by the pool. Who acts: Kwabena, Mum. 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 26

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On holiday in Spain, Kwabena from Croydon is the only kid in his family; Mum and Dad want to read by the pool.

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**Who acts:** Kwabena, Mum · **What happens:** be, want, read · **To what, where:** only kid, family, holiday

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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 (Kwabena, Mum), 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:26
# text = On holiday in Spain, Kwabena from Croydon is the only kid in his family; Mum and Dad want to read by the pool.
# 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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Kwabena	Kwabena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Croydon	Croydon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **is a** | present | Kwabena from Croydon | the only kid |  | kid's family |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | Mum and Dad |  |  | holiday in Spain |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **read** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mum and Dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the pool | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:26`.

**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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