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description: In Sheffield it goes the other way: Becca's sister turns 13, calls Becca «so cringe» and stops letting her in her room. Who acts: toast, sister. 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 i
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 27

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In Sheffield it goes the other way: Becca's sister turns 13, calls Becca «so cringe» and stops letting her in her room.

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**Who acts:** toast, sister · **What happens:** go, turn, call, stop, let · **To what, where:** other way, Sheffield, 13, Becca, room · **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 (toast, sister), 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:27
# text = In Sheffield it goes the other way: Becca's sister turns 13, calls Becca «so cringe» and stops letting her in her room.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sheffield	Sheffield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Becca	Becca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	Becca	Becca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	cringe	cringe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
23	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | toast | the other way |  | Sheffield |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sheffield=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Becca's sister | 13 |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 13=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | Becca's sister *not said here* |  | Becca |  |  | cringe *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent becca=Recipient |
| 4 | **stop** | present | Becca's sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **let** | gerund | Becca's sister *not said here* | Becca |  | sister's room |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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:27`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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