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title: Ayo, 10, from London, visits Lagos once and can't believe how many p… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayo, 10, from London, visits Lagos once and can't believe how many people know his name: «You're Mama Bisi's grandson!» Visiting your grandparents' country can make you feel part of something big. Who acts: Ayo, many people, You, Visiting. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparen
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 18

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Ayo, 10, from London, visits Lagos once and can't believe how many people know his name: «You're Mama Bisi's grandson!» Visiting your grandparents' country can make you feel part of something big.

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**Who acts:** Ayo, many people, You, Visiting · **What happens:** visit, not believe, know, be, make, feel · **To what, where:** Lagos, name, grandson, country, you, part · **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 (Ayo, many people, You, Visiting), 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:18
# text = Ayo, 10, from London, visits Lagos once and can't believe how many people know his name: «You're Mama Bisi's grandson!» Visiting your grandparents' country can make you feel part of something big.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
23	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	Mama	Mama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Bisi	Bisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case
28	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	Visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	csubj	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	40	nmod	_	_
43	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37: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 | **visit** | present | Ayo from London | Lagos |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **believe** | can | Ayo from London *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | many people | Ayo's name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | Mama's grandson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **visit** | gerund |  | your grandparents's country |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **make** | can | Visiting | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | part of something |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | Ayo |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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