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title: Kenzie says, «Try livin' wi' him,» but secretly she loves it. — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: Kenzie says, «Try livin' wi' him,» but secretly she loves it. Who acts: Kenzie. 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 24

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Kenzie says, «Try livin' wi' him,» but secretly she loves it.

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**Who acts:** Kenzie · **What happens:** say, try, live, love · **To what, where:** share · **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 (Kenzie), 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:24
# text = Kenzie says, «Try livin' wi' him,» but secretly she loves it.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Kenzie	Kenzie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	livin	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
8	wi	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **live** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with Glasgow | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 4 | **love** | present | Kenzie | share |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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.

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