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title: Mam says, «Last one to finish homework gets none.» Seán has never do… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: Mam says, «Last one to finish homework gets none.» Seán has never done homework so fast. Who acts: Mam, Last one, Seán. A sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Twins and big families, sentence 23

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Mam says, «Last one to finish homework gets none.» Seán has never done homework so fast.

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**Who acts:** Mam, Last one, Seán · **What happens:** say, finish, get, not do · **To what, where:** homework, none · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» 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, Last one, Seán), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:23
# text = Mam says, «Last one to finish homework gets none.» Seán has never done homework so fast.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 503-twins-and-big-families.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
5	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	Seán	Seán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
18	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	.	.	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 | Mam |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **finish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Last one *not said here* | homework |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality homework=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present | Last one | none |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **do** | present · perfect | Seán | homework |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality |

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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:503-twins-and-big-families.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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