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title: In London, Elodie's mum is a nurse who works nights, so on those nig… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics
description: In London, Elodie's mum is a nurse who works nights, so on those nights Elodie stays with Aunty Roisin, who makes the best stew in Peckham. Who acts: mum, nurse, Elodie, Aunty. A sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Mum on her own, Dad on his own, sentence 20

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In London, Elodie's mum is a nurse who works nights, so on those nights Elodie stays with Aunty Roisin, who makes the best stew in Peckham.

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**Who acts:** mum, nurse, Elodie, Aunty · **What happens:** be, work, stay, make · **To what, where:** nurse, London, best stew, Peckham

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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 (mum, nurse, Elodie, Aunty), 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:20
# text = In London, Elodie's mum is a nurse who works nights, so on those nights Elodie stays with Aunty Roisin, who makes the best stew in Peckham.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	Elodie	Elodie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	Elodie	Elodie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Aunty	Aunty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	Roisin	Roisin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Peckham	Peckham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Elodie's mum | a nurse |  | London |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | a nurse |  |  |  | night |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stay** | present | Elodie |  |  |  | night | with Aunty | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with aunty=Location |
| 4 | **make** | present | Aunty | the best stew |  | Peckham |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Product |

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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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:20`.

**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. **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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