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title: In Bristol, Ellis, 9, has a new sister, Mabel. — A new baby · tree and pragmatics
description: In Bristol, Ellis, 9, has a new sister, Mabel. Who acts: Ellis. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A new baby, sentence 1

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In Bristol, Ellis, 9, has a new sister, Mabel.

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**Who acts:** Ellis · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** new sister, Bristol

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (Ellis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:504-a-new-baby.lesson:1
# text = In Bristol, Ellis, 9, has a new sister, Mabel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 504-a-new-baby.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Ellis	Ellis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Mabel	Mabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **have** | present | Ellis | a new sister |  | Bristol |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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