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title: In Dublin, Clodagh, 17, lets Saoirse play on her phone, and a messag… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Dublin, Clodagh, 17, lets Saoirse play on her phone, and a message pops up from someone Saoirse doesn't know: «u still sneaking out tonite?» Clodagh grabs the phone: «Not a word to Mam, right?» Small secrets, like a surprise present, you can keep. Who acts: Clodagh, Saoirse, message, u. A sentenc
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 21

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In Dublin, Clodagh, 17, lets Saoirse play on her phone, and a message pops up from someone Saoirse doesn't know: «u still sneaking out tonite?» Clodagh grabs the phone: «Not a word to Mam, right?» Small secrets, like a surprise present, you can keep.

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**Who acts:** Clodagh, Saoirse, message, u, you · **What happens:** let, play, pop up, not know, sneak out, grab · **To what, where:** Dublin, phone, someone, tonite · **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 (Clodagh, Saoirse, message, u), 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:21
# text = In Dublin, Clodagh, 17, lets Saoirse play on her phone, and a message pops up from someone Saoirse doesn't know: «u still sneaking out tonite?» Clodagh grabs the phone: «Not a word to Mam, right?» Small secrets, like a surprise present, you can keep.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Clodagh	Clodagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Saoirse	Saoirse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pops	pop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
22	Saoirse	saoirse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
28	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	tonite	tonite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Clodagh	Clodagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
41	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
47	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	43	discourse	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
50	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	dislocated	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	like	like	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	60	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Clodagh |  |  | Dublin |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | Saoirse |  |  | Saoirse's phone |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pop up** | present | a message |  |  | someone |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | Saoirse |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sneak out** *in a quote* | gerund | u | tonite |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonite=Agent |
| 6 | **grab** | present | Clodagh | the phone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** | can | you |  |  |  |  | Small secrets like a surprise present *dislocated* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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:21`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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