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title: In Bradford, with Mum in hospital for a week, Aziza, 17, cooks, does… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Bradford, with Mum in hospital for a week, Aziza, 17, cooks, does Maryam's plaits, checks homework, and cries quietly in the bathroom at night. Who acts: Aziza. A sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 30

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In Bradford, with Mum in hospital for a week, Aziza, 17, cooks, does Maryam's plaits, checks homework, and cries quietly in the bathroom at night.

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**Who acts:** Aziza · **What happens:** cook, do, check, cry · **To what, where:** plaits, homework, bathroom

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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 (Aziza), 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:30
# text = In Bradford, with Mum in hospital for a week, Aziza, 17, cooks, does Maryam's plaits, checks homework, and cries quietly in the bathroom at night.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Bradford	Bradford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Aziza	Aziza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cooks	cook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
19	Maryam	Maryam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
23	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cook** | present | Aziza |  |  |  |  | in Bradford | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent in bradford=Instrument |
| 2 | **do** | present | Aziza *not said here* | Maryam's plaits |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=Eventuality |
| 3 | **check** | present | Aziza *not said here* | homework |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Aziza *not said here* |  |  | the bathroom | night | quietly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bathroom=Location |

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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:30`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-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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