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description: In Cardiff, Celestine, whose parents are both lawyers, says at a sleepover, «Statistically, we'll be tired tomorrow.» The other girls just want a pillow fight. Who acts: parents, Celestine, we, other girls. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» of the eve
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# The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 21

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In Cardiff, Celestine, whose parents are both lawyers, says at a sleepover, «Statistically, we'll be tired tomorrow.» The other girls just want a pillow fight.

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**Who acts:** parents, Celestine, we, other girls · **What happens:** be, say, want · **To what, where:** lawyers, Cardiff, pillow fight · **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 (parents, Celestine, we, other girls), 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:21
# text = In Cardiff, Celestine, whose parents are both lawyers, says at a sleepover, «Statistically, we'll be tired tomorrow.» The other girls just want a pillow fight.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Celestine	Celestine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
18	Statistically	statistically	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
24	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | lawyers's parents | lawyers |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Celestine |  |  | Cardiff |  | at a sleepover | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cardiff=Manner |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  | tomorrow | statistically, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | present | the other girls | a pillow fight |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=Theme |

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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:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:21`.

**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 ×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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