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title: Bram goes red, then buys her a box of Timbits, little doughnut balls… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Bram goes red, then buys her a box of Timbits, little doughnut balls from Tim Hortons. Who acts: Bram. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 29

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Bram goes red, then buys her a box of Timbits, little doughnut balls from Tim Hortons.

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**Who acts:** Bram · **What happens:** go, buys · **To what, where:** box, Bram

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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 (Bram), 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:29
# text = Bram goes red, then buys her a box of Timbits, little doughnut balls from Tim Hortons.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bram	Bram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	buys	buys	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Timbits	timbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Hortons	Hortons	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **go** | present | Bram |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **buys** | present | Bram *not said here* | a box of Timbits | Bram |  | then |  | 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:29`.

**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 ×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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