--- title: In Melbourne a girl says, «Isn't that your sister's dress?» Coco twi… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics description: In Melbourne a girl says, «Isn't that your sister's dress?» Coco twirls: «Yeah, it's vintage, babe.» Everyone laughs, with her. Who acts: girl, that, Coco, dress. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that, Coco, dress), 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:23 # text = In Melbourne a girl says, «Isn't that your sister's dress?» Coco twirls: «Yeah, it's vintage, babe.» Everyone laughs, with her. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 8 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 10 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 Coco Coco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 twirls twirl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 21 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 vintage vintage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 babe babe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 30 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 nsubj _ _ 31 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | a girl | | | Melbourne | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in melbourne=Manner | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | your sister's dress | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **twirl** | present | Coco | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | dress | vintage | | | | babe *vocative* | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | present | Everyone | | | | | with Coco | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:23`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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