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title: In Croydon, Ollie-Ray's school trousers were his brother's and are a… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Croydon, Ollie-Ray's school trousers were his brother's and are a bit long. Who acts: school trousers. 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 o
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 20

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In Croydon, Ollie-Ray's school trousers were his brother's and are a bit long.

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**Who acts:** school trousers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Croydon

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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 (school trousers), 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:20
# text = In Croydon, Ollie-Ray's school trousers were his brother's and are a bit long.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Croydon	Croydon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Ray	Ray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is** | past | Ollie Ray's school trousers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 's Ray's brother | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ollie Ray's school trousers |  |  | Croydon |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; long *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:20`.

**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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