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title: Pete, red and secretly grateful: «I could've handled it, our Dilly»… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Pete, red and secretly grateful: «I could've handled it, our Dilly» («our» before a name is how people up North say «my family's»). Who acts: people, our. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 24

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Pete, red and secretly grateful: «I could've handled it, our Dilly» («our» before a name is how people up North say «my family's»).

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**Who acts:** people, our · **What happens:** handle, be, say up · **To what, where:** truth, family · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (people, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:24
# text = Pete, red and secretly grateful: «I could've handled it, our Dilly» («our» before a name is how people up North say «my family's»).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pete	Pete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
12	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Dilly	Dilly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
29	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl:unmarked
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	«	«	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **handle** *in a quote* | could · perfect | people  North *= people* | truth |  |  |  | our Dilly *vocative* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | our |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say up** *speech: assert* | present | people  North | my family |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent family=Topic |

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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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:24`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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