--- title: Mateus laughs along, then cries in his room. — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Mateus laughs along, then cries in his room. Who acts: Mateus. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Big brothers, sentence 9 Mateus laughs along, then cries in his room. **Who acts:** Mateus · **What happens:** laugh, cry · **To what, where:** 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 (Mateus), 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:9 # text = Mateus laughs along, then cries in his room. # 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 Mateus Mateus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 along along ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 5 then then ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | Mateus | | | | | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Mateus *not said here* | | | Mateus's room | then | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Big brothers, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/7/) - next →: [Big brothers, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/)