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title: In Carmarthen, Seren's grandad, who worked down the coal mine for th… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: In Carmarthen, Seren's grandad, who worked down the coal mine for thirty years, says, «Elbows off the table, sit up straight, no phones at the table.» «Mam lets me!» «This is my table, bach» (Welsh for little one). Who acts: grandad, Mam, This. A sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 6

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In Carmarthen, Seren's grandad, who worked down the coal mine for thirty years, says, «Elbows off the table, sit up straight, no phones at the table.» «Mam lets me!» «This is my table, bach» (Welsh for little one).

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**Who acts:** grandad, Mam, This · **What happens:** work down, say, sit up, let, be · **To what, where:** coal mine, Elbows, Carmarthen, me, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Mam, This), 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:6
# text = In Carmarthen, Seren's grandad, who worked down the coal mine for thirty years, says, «Elbows off the table, sit up straight, no phones at the table.» «Mam lets me!» «This is my table, bach» (Welsh for little one).
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Carmarthen	Carmarthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Seren	Seren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
12	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	case	_	_
21	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
38	Mam	mam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
43	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
44	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	bach	bach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	vocative	_	_
50	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
51	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	52	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct
52	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	_	47	parataxis	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	52	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **work down** | past | Seren's grandad | the coal mine |  |  | year |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mine=Material |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present |  | Elbows |  | Carmarthen |  | off the table | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | present | Mam | me |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | my table |  |  |  | bach *vocative* | 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:6`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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