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title: «I'm mad scared,» he tells his friend (New York «mad» = very). — A new baby · tree and pragmatics
description: «I'm mad scared,» he tells his friend (New York «mad» = very). Who acts: brother. 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 21

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«I'm mad scared,» he tells his friend (New York «mad» = very).

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brother), 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:21
# text = «I'm mad scared,» he tells his friend (New York «mad» = very).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	_
14	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	parataxis	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | brother |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | brother |  | brother's friend |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |

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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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:21`.

**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. **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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