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title: Mum: «She'll rot her teeth!» Nanna: «She's a growing girl!» — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: «She'll rot her teeth!» Nanna: «She's a growing girl!» Who acts: Mum, 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 4

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Mum: «She'll rot her teeth!» Nanna: «She's a growing girl!»

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**Who acts:** Mum, Nanna · **What happens:** rot, grow, be · **To what, where:** teeth, growing girl

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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 (Mum, 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:4
# text = Mum: «She'll rot her teeth!» Nanna: «She's a growing girl!»
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	Nanna	Nanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
14	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **rot** *in a quote* | future | Mum | Mum's teeth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Nanna | a growing girl |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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