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title: In Swansea, Saffie's mam works two jobs, so Saffie gets home at quar… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics
description: In Swansea, Saffie's mam works two jobs, so Saffie gets home at quarter to four to an empty house till six; Mrs Hughes from next door pops round to check on her: «Alright, bach? Who acts: mam, Saffie, Mrs. A sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» of the everyday course of Mova's pri
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# Mum on her own, Dad on his own, sentence 21

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In Swansea, Saffie's mam works two jobs, so Saffie gets home at quarter to four to an empty house till six; Mrs Hughes from next door pops round to check on her: «Alright, bach?

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**Who acts:** mam, Saffie, Mrs · **What happens:** work, get, pop, check · **To what, where:** two jobs, Swansea, quarter, Mrs

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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 (mam, Saffie, Mrs), 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:21
# text = In Swansea, Saffie's mam works two jobs, so Saffie gets home at quarter to four to an empty house till six; Mrs Hughes from next door pops round to check on her: «Alright, bach?
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Swansea	swansea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Saffie	Saffie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mam	mam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	Saffie	Saffie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pops	pop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
39	Alright	alright	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	bach	bach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	vocative	_	_
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **work** | present | Saffie's mam | two jobs |  | Swansea |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent job=Material |
| 2 | **get** | present | Saffie |  |  | quarter |  | to four; to a empty house till six; home *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to four=Initial\_Location to house=Destination |
| 3 | **pop** | present | Mrs |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **check** | to-infinitive | Mrs *not said here* | Mrs |  |  |  | bach *vocative* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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