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title: In Sydney, Ethan-Jay's grandparents post Cadbury chocolate and Marmi… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: In Sydney, Ethan-Jay's grandparents post Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England; his mates go, «Ew, Marmite?», and he eats it anyway. Who acts: grandparents, mates, Pooja. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 13

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In Sydney, Ethan-Jay's grandparents post Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England; his mates go, «Ew, Marmite?», and he eats it anyway.

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**Who acts:** grandparents, mates, Pooja · **What happens:** post, go, eat · **To what, where:** Cadbury chocolate, Sydney, Marmite

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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 (grandparents, mates, Pooja), 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:13
# text = In Sydney, Ethan-Jay's grandparents post Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England; his mates go, «Ew, Marmite?», and he eats it anyway.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	post	post	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Cadbury	Cadbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Marmite	marmite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Ew	ew	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	19	discourse	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Marmite	marmite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **post** | present | Ethan Jay's grandparents | Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England |  | Sydney |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | England's mates |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | Pooja | Marmite |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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