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title: In Perth, Australia, Lachlan's mate says, «Mate, you're spoilt rotte… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Perth, Australia, Lachlan's mate says, «Mate, you're spoilt rotten, you've got every console.» Lachlan is stung, then gives his old Switch to a cousin who hasn't got one. Who acts: mate, you, cousin. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» of the everyda
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# The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 18

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In Perth, Australia, Lachlan's mate says, «Mate, you're spoilt rotten, you've got every console.» Lachlan is stung, then gives his old Switch to a cousin who hasn't got one.

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**Who acts:** mate, you, cousin · **What happens:** say, be, get, sting, give, not get · **To what, where:** Perth, console, Lachlan, old Switch, cousin, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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 (mate, you, cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:18
# text = In Perth, Australia, Lachlan's mate says, «Mate, you're spoilt rotten, you've got every console.» Lachlan is stung, then gives his old Switch to a cousin who hasn't got one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Perth	Perth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Lachlan	Lachlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
12	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
26	Lachlan	Lachlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lachlan's mate |  |  | Perth and Australia |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative*; rotten *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | every console |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer console=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sting** | present · passive |  | Lachlan |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **give** | present |  | mate's old Switch | a cousin |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent switch=Theme to cousin=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **get** | present · perfect | a cousin | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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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