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title: «Naw, cousins,» says Kenzie, «but same thing.» In Leicester, Arnav's… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: «Naw, cousins,» says Kenzie, «but same thing.» In Leicester, Arnav's cousin Rohan, 15, is like a big brother: he teaches him cricket, takes him to the shops and helps with his homework. Who acts: Kenzie, Rohan. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday cour
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 2

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«Naw, cousins,» says Kenzie, «but same thing.» In Leicester, Arnav's cousin Rohan, 15, is like a big brother: he teaches him cricket, takes him to the shops and helps with his homework.

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**Who acts:** Kenzie, Rohan · **What happens:** say, be, teach, take, help · **To what, where:** Leicester, cricket, Arnav, shops · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kenzie, Rohan), 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:2
# text = «Naw, cousins,» says Kenzie, «but same thing.» In Leicester, Arnav's cousin Rohan, 15, is like a big brother: he teaches him cricket, takes him to the shops and helps with his homework.
# 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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	Naw	Naw	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Kenzie	Kenzie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	Arnav	Arnav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
22	Rohan	Rohan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kenzie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Rohan |  |  | Leicester |  | like a big brother | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Rohan | cricket | Arnav |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cricket=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | present | Rohan *not said here* | Arnav |  | the shops |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shop=Destination |
| 5 | **help** | present | Rohan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Rohan's homework | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with homework=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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**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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