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title: In Melbourne, Nana suddenly shouts at Lettie, «Get out, you thief, t… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics
description: In Melbourne, Nana suddenly shouts at Lettie, «Get out, you thief, that's my purse!» Lettie runs out crying. Who acts: Nana, you, that, Lettie. A sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 9

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In Melbourne, Nana suddenly shouts at Lettie, «Get out, you thief, that's my purse!» Lettie runs out crying.

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**Who acts:** Nana, you, that, Lettie · **What happens:** shout, get out, thief, be, run out, cry · **To what, where:** Melbourne, purse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (Nana, you, that, Lettie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:9
# text = In Melbourne, Nana suddenly shouts at Lettie, «Get out, you thief, that's my purse!» Lettie runs out crying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lettie	Lettie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Lettie	Lettie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
26	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Nana |  |  | Melbourne |  | at Lettie; suddenly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Nana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thief** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | my purse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run out** | present | Lettie |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Lettie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.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): R7-rel-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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