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title: Baba walks the phone round her garden to show him the tomatoes, then… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: Baba walks the phone round her garden to show him the tomatoes, then says quietly that the air-raid sirens were loud last night. Who acts: Baba, raid sirens. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 1

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Baba walks the phone round her garden to show him the tomatoes, then says quietly that the air-raid sirens were loud last night.

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**Who acts:** Baba, raid sirens · **What happens:** walk, show, say, be · **To what, where:** phone, garden, tomatoes, Taras · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (Baba, raid sirens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:1
# text = Baba walks the phone round her garden to show him the tomatoes, then says quietly that the air-raid sirens were loud last night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.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	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	raid	raid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sirens	siren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **walk** | present | Baba | the phone |  | Ukraine's garden |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent phone=Theme round garden=Trajectory |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Baba *not said here* | the tomatoes | Taras |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tomato=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Baba *not said here* |  |  |  | then | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the raid sirens |  |  |  | night | loud *property* | 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): 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.

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