--- title: At Thanksgiving his cousins from California talk about private schoo… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics description: At Thanksgiving his cousins from California talk about private schools and skiing, and one says, «You're so lucky, you don't have to do anything.» Josiah feels small and angry. Who acts: cousins, one, You, Josiah. 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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 (cousins, one, You, Josiah), 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:6 # text = At Thanksgiving his cousins from California talk about private schools and skiing, and one says, «You're so lucky, you don't have to do anything.» Josiah feels small and angry. # 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): no change 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 skiing skiing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nsubj _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 19 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 33 Josiah Josiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Thanksgiving's cousins from California | | | Thanksgiving | | about private schools and skiing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about school=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | lucky *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 6 | **feel** | present | Josiah | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/5/) - next →: [Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/)