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title: Asking first, «Can I wear your hoodie Friday?», usually gets a yes a… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking first, «Can I wear your hoodie Friday?», usually gets a yes and saves a war. Who acts: I. 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 13

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Asking first, «Can I wear your hoodie Friday?», usually gets a yes and saves a war.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ask, wear, get, save · **To what, where:** hoodie, war · **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 (I), 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:13
# text = Asking first, «Can I wear your hoodie Friday?», usually gets a yes and saves a war.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
17	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	19	discourse	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | can | I | your hoodie |  |  | friday |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hoodie=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **save** | present |  | a war |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:13`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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