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title: «This was my room first,» says Jaylon, mardy as anything («mardy» is… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: «This was my room first,» says Jaylon, mardy as anything («mardy» is Northern for sulky). Who acts: This, Jaylon, mardy. A sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Half- and step-siblings, sentence 9

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«This was my room first,» says Jaylon, mardy as anything («mardy» is Northern for sulky).

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**Who acts:** This, Jaylon, mardy · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» 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 (This, Jaylon, mardy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:9
# text = «This was my room first,» says Jaylon, mardy as anything («mardy» is Northern for sulky).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 505-half-and-step-siblings.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 ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Jaylon	Jaylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mardy	mardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	mardy	mardy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 a** *in a quote* | past | This | my room |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jaylon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | mardy |  |  |  |  | for sulky; northern *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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**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:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:9`.

**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 ×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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