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title: Her pals say, «Aw, he's pure cute» («pure» = really). — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: Her pals say, «Aw, he's pure cute» («pure» = really). Who acts: pals, Glasgow. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 23

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Her pals say, «Aw, he's pure cute» («pure» = really).

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**Who acts:** pals, Glasgow · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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 (pals, Glasgow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:23
# text = Her pals say, «Aw, he's pure cute» («pure» = really).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pals	pal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Aw	Aw	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	3	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	pure	pure	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	cute	cute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
14	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kenzie's pals |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Glasgow |  |  |  |  | cute, pure *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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:23`.

**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): 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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