--- title: In Auckland, Koa's grandad in Samoa sends voice messages in Samoan;… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics description: In Auckland, Koa's grandad in Samoa sends voice messages in Samoan; Koa understands half, and his mum translates the rest. Who acts: grandad, Koa, mum. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandad, Koa, mum), 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:9 # text = In Auckland, Koa's grandad in Samoa sends voice messages in Samoan; Koa understands half, and his mum translates the rest. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 Koa Koa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Samoa Samoa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Samoan Samoan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Koa Koa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 understands understand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 translates translate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present | Koa's grandad in Samoa | voice messages | | Auckland | | in Samoan | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme in auckland=Destination | | 2 | **understand** | present | Koa | half | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus | | 3 | **translate** | present | Koa's mum | the rest | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | 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. **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:9`. **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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