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title: In Liverpool, Grandad does Tommy's school run in his ancient car, si… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: In Liverpool, Grandad does Tommy's school run in his ancient car, singing Beatles songs with the window down. Who acts: Grandad, Tommy. 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 pragmat
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 19

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In Liverpool, Grandad does Tommy's school run in his ancient car, singing Beatles songs with the window down.

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**Who acts:** Grandad, Tommy · **What happens:** do, sing, run · **To what, where:** school run, Liverpool, Beatles songs, ancient car

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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 (Grandad, Tommy), 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:19
# text = In Liverpool, Grandad does Tommy's school run in his ancient car, singing Beatles songs with the window down.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	Beatles	Beatles	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **do** | present | Grandad | Tommy's school run |  | Liverpool |  | in grandad's ancient car | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Grandad *not said here* | Beatles songs |  |  |  | with the window | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **run** |  | Tommy |  |  | grandad's ancient car |  |  | nom run «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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