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title: In Inverness, Torquil, 18, has joined the army, and his bedroom is e… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: In Inverness, Torquil, 18, has joined the army, and his bedroom is empty. Who acts: Torquil, bedroom. 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 28

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In Inverness, Torquil, 18, has joined the army, and his bedroom is empty.

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**Who acts:** Torquil, bedroom · **What happens:** join, be · **To what, where:** army, Inverness

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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 (Torquil, bedroom), 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:28
# text = In Inverness, Torquil, 18, has joined the army, and his bedroom is empty.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Inverness	Inverness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Torquil	Torquil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **join** | present · perfect | Torquil | the army |  | Inverness |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Torquil's bedroom |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | 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:28`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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