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title: In Dublin, Rian's cousins visit from Australia: «Let's go to the ser… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: In Dublin, Rian's cousins visit from Australia: «Let's go to the servo for a snag!» Rian: «The what for a what?» (a servo is a petrol station, a snag is a sausage). Who acts: cousins, 's, servo, snag. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 14

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In Dublin, Rian's cousins visit from Australia: «Let's go to the servo for a snag!» Rian: «The what for a what?» (a servo is a petrol station, a snag is a sausage).

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**Who acts:** cousins, 's, servo, snag · **What happens:** visit, let, go, be · **To what, where:** Rian, Dublin, 's, servo, petrol station, sausage

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (cousins, 's, servo, snag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:14
# text = In Dublin, Rian's cousins visit from Australia: «Let's go to the servo for a snag!» Rian: «The what for a what?» (a servo is a petrol station, a snag is a sausage).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.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	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Rian	Rian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	servo	servo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	snag	snag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Rian	Rian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	servo	servo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	snag	snag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | Rian's cousins | Rian |  | Dublin |  | from Australia | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rian=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Rian's cousins *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  | the servo |  | for a snag | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to servo=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a servo | a petrol station |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a snag | a sausage |  |  |  |  | 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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:14`.

**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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