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title: In Galway, Darragh sneaks a biscuit and Aoibheann says nothing; next… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Galway, Darragh sneaks a biscuit and Aoibheann says nothing; next day she sneaks one and he says nothing. Who acts: Darragh, Aoibheann. 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 dep
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 16

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In Galway, Darragh sneaks a biscuit and Aoibheann says nothing; next day she sneaks one and he says nothing.

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**Who acts:** Darragh, Aoibheann · **What happens:** sneak, say · **To what, where:** biscuit, Galway, nothing, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Darragh, Aoibheann), 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:16
# text = In Galway, Darragh sneaks a biscuit and Aoibheann says nothing; next day she sneaks one and he says nothing.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Galway	Galway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Darragh	Darragh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sneaks	sneak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Aoibheann	Aoibheann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sneaks	sneak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **sneak** | present | Darragh | a biscuit |  | Galway |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme in galway=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Aoibheann | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **sneak** | present | Aoibheann | one |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Darragh | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:16`.

**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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