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title: Covering for each other can be funny. — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Covering for each other can be funny. Who acts: Covering. A sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 12

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Covering for each other can be funny.

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**Who acts:** Covering · **What happens:** cover, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Covering), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:12
# text = Covering for each other can be funny.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): no change
1	Covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	1	obl	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cover** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for each | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | Covering |  |  |  |  | funny *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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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