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title: In Merthyr Tydfil, teachers say to Rhys, «Oh, you're Gethin's brothe… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: In Merthyr Tydfil, teachers say to Rhys, «Oh, you're Gethin's brother, are you? Who acts: teachers, Rhys. 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.
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# Big brothers, sentence 20

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In Merthyr Tydfil, teachers say to Rhys, «Oh, you're Gethin's brother, are you?

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**Who acts:** teachers, Rhys · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Rhys, Merthyr, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (teachers, Rhys), 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:20
# text = In Merthyr Tydfil, teachers say to Rhys, «Oh, you're Gethin's brother, are you?
# 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	Merthyr	Merthyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	Tydfil	Tydfil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Rhys	Rhys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	Gethin	Gethin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	parataxis	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | teachers |  | Rhys | Merthyr |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rhys=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Rhys | Gethin's brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Rhys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:501-big-brothers.lesson:20`.

**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/).

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