--- title: In Bristol, Nan says, «Children should be seen and not heard.» Delph… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics description: In Bristol, Nan says, «Children should be seen and not heard.» Delphine: «That's well old school, Nan.» Nan laughs: «It is, my lover. Who acts: Nan, That. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nan, That), 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:8 # text = In Bristol, Nan says, «Children should be seen and not heard.» Delphine: «That's well old school, Nan.» Nan laughs: «It is, my lover. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Bristol Bristol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Nan Nan PROPN NNP _ 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 9 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Delphine Delphine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 21 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 33 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nsubj 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan | | | Bristol | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | should · passive | | Children | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | old school | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | present | Nan | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Nan *not said here* | my lover | | | | | 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:8`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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