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title: Ellie-May wants the floor to swallow her, then gets up and dances an… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellie-May wants the floor to swallow her, then gets up and dances anyway. Who acts: Ellie, floor. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 2

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Ellie-May wants the floor to swallow her, then gets up and dances anyway.

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**Who acts:** Ellie, floor · **What happens:** want, swallow, get up, dance · **To what, where:** floor, Ellie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (Ellie, floor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:2
# text = Ellie-May wants the floor to swallow her, then gets up and dances anyway.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **want** | present | Ellie | the floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the floor *not said here* | Ellie |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **get up** | present | Ellie *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dance** | present | Ellie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:2`.

**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. **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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