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title: «Rank!» she gags (Irish slang for disgusting), then laughs: little j… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: «Rank!» she gags (Irish slang for disgusting), then laughs: little jobs help families, and you can say when it's too much. Who acts: mam, little jobs, you, slang. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 26

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«Rank!» she gags (Irish slang for disgusting), then laughs: little jobs help families, and you can say when it's too much.

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**Who acts:** mam, little jobs, you, slang · **What happens:** gag, laugh, help, say, be · **To what, where:** families · **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 (mam, little jobs, you, slang), 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:26
# text = «Rank!» she gags (Irish slang for disgusting), then laughs: little jobs help families, and you can say when it's too much.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gags	gag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **gag** | present | mam |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | present |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | little jobs | families |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | slang |  |  |  |  | much *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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**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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