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title: In Aberystwyth, Ffion, 9, reads her big sister Lowri's diary and fin… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Aberystwyth, Ffion, 9, reads her big sister Lowri's diary and finds out Lowri likes a boy called Iwan. Who acts: Ffion, Lowri. 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 pragma
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 14

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In Aberystwyth, Ffion, 9, reads her big sister Lowri's diary and finds out Lowri likes a boy called Iwan.

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**Who acts:** Ffion, Lowri · **What happens:** read, find out, like, call · **To what, where:** diary, Aberystwyth, boy · **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 (Ffion, Lowri), 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:14
# text = In Aberystwyth, Ffion, 9, reads her big sister Lowri's diary and finds out Lowri likes a boy called Iwan.
# 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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Aberystwyth	Aberystwyth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Ffion	Ffion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
12	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case
14	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	Iwan	Iwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **read** | present | Ffion | Ffion's big sister's diary |  | Aberystwyth |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic |
| 2 | **find out** | present | Ffion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | Lowri | a boy |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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 ×3. **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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