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title: At tea Ffion sings, «Lowri loves Iwan!» Lowri goes white, then cries… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: At tea Ffion sings, «Lowri loves Iwan!» Lowri goes white, then cries, then doesn't speak to her for three days. 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 
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 15

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At tea Ffion sings, «Lowri loves Iwan!» Lowri goes white, then cries, then doesn't speak to her for three days.

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**Who acts:** Ffion, Lowri · **What happens:** sing, love, go, cry, not speak · **To what, where:** tea, Iwan, Lowri · **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:15
# text = At tea Ffion sings, «Lowri loves Iwan!» Lowri goes white, then cries, then doesn't speak to her for three days.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Ffion	Ffion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
7	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Iwan	Iwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
12	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Ffion |  |  | tea |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tea=Location |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Lowri | Iwan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | Lowri |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Lowri *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · do-support | Lowri *not said here* | Lowri |  |  | then; day |  | vn talk-37.5 «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:15`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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