--- title: In Belfast, Kian's dad tries to do Kian's sister's hair for a party:… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics description: In Belfast, Kian's dad tries to do Kian's sister's hair for a party: a disaster, until Kian finds a video and they do it together, all three laughing. Who acts: dad, Kian, cornrows, three. 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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 (dad, Kian, cornrows, three), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:11 # text = In Belfast, Kian's dad tries to do Kian's sister's hair for a party: a disaster, until Kian finds a video and they do it together, all three laughing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Belfast Belfast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Kian Kian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 Kian Kian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 Kian Kian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nsubj _ _ 35 laughing laughing VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Kian's dad | | | Belfast | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kian's dad *not said here* | Kian's sister's hair | | | | for a party and a disaster | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality | | 3 | **find** | present | Kian | a video | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Topic | | 4 | **do** | present | cornrows *= cornrow* | video | | | | together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **laughing** | gerund | all three | | | | | | tree rules | 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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:11`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Mum on her own, Dad on his own, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/10/) - next →: [Mum on her own, Dad on his own, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/)