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title: In Burnley, Nan picks Alfie-Joe up from school every day while Mum's… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: In Burnley, Nan picks Alfie-Joe up from school every day while Mum's at work, and every day it's a Wagon Wheel, a can of pop and a fiver «for nowt» (Northern for nothing). Who acts: Nan, Mum, work. A sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» of the everyday course of 
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 0

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In Burnley, Nan picks Alfie-Joe up from school every day while Mum's at work, and every day it's a Wagon Wheel, a can of pop and a fiver «for nowt» (Northern for nothing).

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**Who acts:** Nan, Mum, work · **What happens:** pick up, be · **To what, where:** Alfie Joe, Burnley, work, Wagon Wheel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 (Nan, Mum, work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:0
# text = In Burnley, Nan picks Alfie-Joe up from school every day while Mum's at work, and every day it's a Wagon Wheel, a can of pop and a fiver «for nowt» (Northern for nothing).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Burnley	Burnley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Joe	Joe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Wagon	wagon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	Wheel	wheel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det
30	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	nowt	nowt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	_	8	appos	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	41	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:nmod
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **pick up** | present | Nan | Alfie Joe |  | Burnley | day | from school | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joe=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mum |  |  | work |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | work | a Wagon Wheel |  |  | day |  | 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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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