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title: In Swansea, Megan-Lee, 15, bosses Cerys, 9, from breakfast on: «Shoe… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Swansea, Megan-Lee, 15, bosses Cerys, 9, from breakfast on: «Shoes on. Who acts: Megan. A sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 1

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In Swansea, Megan-Lee, 15, bosses Cerys, 9, from breakfast on: «Shoes on.

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**Who acts:** Megan · **What happens:** boss · **To what, where:** Cerys, Swansea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 (Megan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:1
# text = In Swansea, Megan-Lee, 15, bosses Cerys, 9, from breakfast on: «Shoes on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.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	Swansea	swansea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Megan	Megan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
6	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bosses	boss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Cerys	Cerys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **boss** | present | Megan | Cerys |  | Swansea |  | from breakfast | 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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:1`.

**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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