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title: In Llanelli, Gethin, 9, and Owain, 12, used to be best mates; now Ow… — Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room · tree and pragmatics
description: In Llanelli, Gethin, 9, and Owain, 12, used to be best mates; now Owain is on his phone all the time, and they walk to school without a word. Who acts: Owain, siblings. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room, sentence 22

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In Llanelli, Gethin, 9, and Owain, 12, used to be best mates; now Owain is on his phone all the time, and they walk to school without a word.

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**Who acts:** Owain, siblings · **What happens:** use, be, walk · **To what, where:** Llanelli, best mates, phone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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 (Owain, siblings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.lesson:22
# text = In Llanelli, Gethin, 9, and Owain, 12, used to be best mates; now Owain is on his phone all the time, and they walk to school without a word.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Llanelli	Llanelli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Gethin	Gethin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Owain	Owain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
20	Owain	Owain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **use** | past |  |  |  | Llanelli |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | best mates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Owain |  |  | Owain's phone | now; time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | present | siblings *= sibling* |  |  |  |  | to school *result*; without a word | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result |

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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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**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, 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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