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title: In Edinburgh, it goes the other way: Morven, 16, borrows Iona's glit… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Edinburgh, it goes the other way: Morven, 16, borrows Iona's glittery hair clips for a party: «Ah, they're braw, cheers, wee yin» («braw» = lovely, «wee yin» = little one). Who acts: cap, Morven, clips. A sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» of the ever
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 11

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In Edinburgh, it goes the other way: Morven, 16, borrows Iona's glittery hair clips for a party: «Ah, they're braw, cheers, wee yin» («braw» = lovely, «wee yin» = little one).

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**Who acts:** cap, Morven, clips · **What happens:** go, borrow, be · **To what, where:** other way, Edinburgh, glittery hair clips, wee yin » · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cap, Morven, clips), 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:11
# text = In Edinburgh, it goes the other way: Morven, 16, borrows Iona's glittery hair clips for a party: «Ah, they're braw, cheers, wee yin» («braw» = lovely, «wee yin» = little one).
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Morven	Morven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	borrows	borrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	Iona	Iona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	glittery	glittery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	clips	clip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
25	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	braw	braw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	cheers	cheer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	yin	yin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
37	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	braw	braw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
40	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
41	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
44	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	yin	yin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | present | cap | the other way |  | Edinburgh |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **borrow** | present | Morven | Iona's glittery hair clips |  |  |  | for a party | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | clips *= clip* |  |  |  |  | braw *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | clips *= clip* *not said here* | wee yin » and little one |  |  |  |  | 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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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