--- title: In Calgary, Lorcan, 16, stops talking, stays in his room and grunts… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: In Calgary, Lorcan, 16, stops talking, stays in his room and grunts at dinner. Who acts: Lorcan. A sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Big brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/) / 17 # Big brothers, sentence 17 In Calgary, Lorcan, 16, stops talking, stays in his room and grunts at dinner. **Who acts:** Lorcan · **What happens:** stop, talk, stay, grunt · **To what, where:** Calgary, room This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (Lorcan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:501-big-brothers.lesson:17 # text = In Calgary, Lorcan, 16, stops talking, stays in his room and grunts at dinner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 501-big-brothers.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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Calgary Calgary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Lorcan Lorcan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 grunts grunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | Lorcan | | | Calgary | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | Lorcan *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | present | Lorcan *not said here* | | | Lorcan's room | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | | 4 | **grunt** | present | Lorcan *not said here* | | | | | at dinner | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dinner=Stimulus | 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. **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:501-big-brothers.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/16/) - next →: [Big brothers, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)