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title: He looks at old photos with his dad: Granda in a flat cap, Granny la… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: He looks at old photos with his dad: Granda in a flat cap, Granny laughing at a wedding. Who acts: Jago, Granny. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 21

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He looks at old photos with his dad: Granda in a flat cap, Granny laughing at a wedding.

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**Who acts:** Jago, Granny · **What happens:** look, laugh · **To what, where:** Granda, wedding

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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 (Jago, Granny), 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:21
# text = He looks at old photos with his dad: Granda in a flat cap, Granny laughing at a wedding.
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Granda	Granda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **look** | present | Jago | Granda in a flat cap and Granny |  |  |  | at old photos with Jago's dad | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | Granny *not said here* |  |  | a wedding |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:21`.

**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.

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

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