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title: Ronan is 10 now and knows exactly how the trick works (the coin is h… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ronan is 10 now and knows exactly how the trick works (the coin is hidden in Paddy's hand all along), and he still laughs, because the laugh is for Paddy. Who acts: Ronan, trick, laugh. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 7

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Ronan is 10 now and knows exactly how the trick works (the coin is hidden in Paddy's hand all along), and he still laughs, because the laugh is for Paddy.

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**Who acts:** Ronan, trick, laugh · **What happens:** be, know, work, hide, laugh · **To what, where:** 10, coin, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ronan, trick, laugh), 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:7
# text = Ronan is 10 now and knows exactly how the trick works (the coin is hidden in Paddy's hand all along), and he still laughs, because the laugh is for Paddy.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Ronan	Ronan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Paddy	Paddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Paddy	Paddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **is a** | present | Ronan | 10 |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | Ronan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **work** | present | the trick |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hide** | present · passive |  | the coin |  | Paddy's hand |  | along *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hand=Location |
| 5 | **laugh** | present | Ronan |  |  |  | still |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the laugh |  |  |  |  | for Paddy | 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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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