--- title: Mam: «We haven't got a cat.» Both girls burst out laughing and own up. — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics description: Mam: «We haven't got a cat.» Both girls burst out laughing and own up. Who acts: We, girls. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The favourite, the black sheep, coveri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/) / 15 # The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 15 Mam: «We haven't got a cat.» Both girls burst out laughing and own up. **Who acts:** We, girls · **What happens:** not get, burst out, laugh, own up · **To what, where:** cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (We, girls), 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:15 # text = Mam: «We haven't got a cat.» Both girls burst out laughing and own up. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 dep _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 parataxis _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 own own VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We | a cat | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 2 | **burst out** | past | both girls | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | both girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **own up** | present | both girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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. **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:15`. **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. 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