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title: In Cheshire, Lily-Grace's cousins talk dead posh and ride horses; sh… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics
description: In Cheshire, Lily-Grace's cousins talk dead posh and ride horses; she feels awkward, has a go on a pony and falls straight off into the mud. Who acts: cousins, Grace. A sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 8

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In Cheshire, Lily-Grace's cousins talk dead posh and ride horses; she feels awkward, has a go on a pony and falls straight off into the mud.

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**Who acts:** cousins, Grace · **What happens:** talk, ride, feel, have, fall · **To what, where:** dead posh, Cheshire, horses, go, mud

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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, Grace), 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:8
# text = In Cheshire, Lily-Grace's cousins talk dead posh and ride horses; she feels awkward, has a go on a pony and falls straight off into the mud.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
11	posh	posh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
13	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	off	off	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **talk** | present | Lily Grace's cousins | dead posh |  | Cheshire |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent posh=Patient |
| 2 | **ride** | present | Lily Grace's cousins *not said here* | horses |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | Grace |  |  |  |  | awkward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | Grace *not said here* | a go |  |  |  | on a pony | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | present | Grace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the mud *result*; off *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mud=Result |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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