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title: In Brisbane, Nanna buys Ava-Rose an ice cream every arvo (Aussie for… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: In Brisbane, Nanna buys Ava-Rose an ice cream every arvo (Aussie for afternoon). Who acts: Nanna. 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.
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 3

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In Brisbane, Nanna buys Ava-Rose an ice cream every arvo (Aussie for afternoon).

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**Who acts:** Nanna · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** ice cream, Ava, Brisbane

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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 (Nanna), 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:3
# text = In Brisbane, Nanna buys Ava-Rose an ice cream every arvo (Aussie for afternoon).
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nanna	Nanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Aussie	aussie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **buy** | present | Nanna | a ice cream | Ava | Brisbane |  | every arvo *obl:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ava=Beneficiary cream=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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:3`.

**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. **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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