--- title: His friends try her tamales and say they're «bussin'» (Gen Alpha sla… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics description: His friends try her tamales and say they're «bussin'» (Gen Alpha slang for really tasty). Who acts: friends. A sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The granny who spoils you and the stri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/) / 17 # The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 17 His friends try her tamales and say they're «bussin'» (Gen Alpha slang for really tasty). **Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** try, say, be · **To what, where:** tamales, Gen slang, bussin · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (friends), 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:17 # text = His friends try her tamales and say they're «bussin'» (Gen Alpha slang for really tasty). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tamales tamale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bussin bussin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 15 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 Alpha Alpha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Mateo's friends | Los's tamales | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tamale=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mateo's friends *not said here* | Gen slang | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent slang=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | friends *= friend* | bussin | | | | | tree rules | 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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:17`. **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): 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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