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title: Mom says, «Shoots» (Hawaiian slang for «okay, sure») and shows her h… — A new baby · tree and pragmatics
description: Mom says, «Shoots» (Hawaiian slang for «okay, sure») and shows her how to support his head. Who acts: Mom. 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 33

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Mom says, «Shoots» (Hawaiian slang for «okay, sure») and shows her how to support his head.

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**Who acts:** Mom · **What happens:** say, show, support · **To what, where:** Mom, head · **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 (Mom), 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:33
# text = Mom says, «Shoots» (Hawaiian slang for «okay, sure») and shows her how to support his head.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mom	mom	NOUN	NN	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	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:IN:_
5	Shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | Mom |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present | Mom *not said here* |  | Mom |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent her=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **support** | to-infinitive | Mom *not said here* | Honolulu's head |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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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**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:33`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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