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title: In Toronto, Sophie-Grace's gran rings from Scotland: «Ye're lookin'… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: In Toronto, Sophie-Grace's gran rings from Scotland: «Ye're lookin' braw, hen!» «Huh?» («braw» is lovely, «hen» is dear.) Trying matters more than getting it right. Who acts: Ye, braw », « hen ». A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of 
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 10

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In Toronto, Sophie-Grace's gran rings from Scotland: «Ye're lookin' braw, hen!» «Huh?» («braw» is lovely, «hen» is dear.) Trying matters more than getting it right.

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**Who acts:** Ye, braw », « hen » · **What happens:** look, be, try, get · **To what, where:** braw, »

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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 (Ye, braw », « hen »), 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:10
# text = In Toronto, Sophie-Grace's gran rings from Scotland: «Ye're lookin' braw, hen!» «Huh?» («braw» is lovely, «hen» is dear.) Trying matters more than getting it right.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lookin	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	braw	braw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
22	»	»	X	GW	_	42	compound	_	_
23	«	«	X	GW	_	22	goeswith	_	_
24	Huh	huh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
26	»	»	X	PRP	_	22	goeswith	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
28	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	braw	braw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	goeswith	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	«	«	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
41	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	amod	_	_
42	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	parataxis	_	_
44	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
45	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:acl
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	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 | **look** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ye | braw and hen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme braw=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | « braw » |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | « hen » |  |  |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  | » |  |  |  | right *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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