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title: In Atlanta, Marquis gets a car for his 17th birthday; Ezekiel got a… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Atlanta, Marquis gets a car for his 17th birthday; Ezekiel got a cheap bike for his 10th. Who acts: Marquis, Ezekiel. 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 t
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 6

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In Atlanta, Marquis gets a car for his 17th birthday; Ezekiel got a cheap bike for his 10th.

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**Who acts:** Marquis, Ezekiel · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** car, Atlanta, cheap bike

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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 (Marquis, Ezekiel), 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:6
# text = In Atlanta, Marquis gets a car for his 17th birthday; Ezekiel got a cheap bike for his 10th.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gets	get	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	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound
11	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Ezekiel	Ezekiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	10th	10th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **get** | present | Marquis | a car |  | Atlanta |  | for Marquis's 17th birthday | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent car=Theme for birthday=Source |
| 2 | **get** | past | Ezekiel | a cheap bike |  |  |  | for Marquis's 10th | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bike=Theme for 10th=Source |

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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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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