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title: In Baltimore, Tremaine's dad does his cornrows (tight braids along t… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics
description: In Baltimore, Tremaine's dad does his cornrows (tight braids along the head) before school, badly. Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mum on her own, Dad on his own, sentence 7

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In Baltimore, Tremaine's dad does his cornrows (tight braids along the head) before school, badly.

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**Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** cornrows, Baltimore

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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 (dad), 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:7
# text = In Baltimore, Tremaine's dad does his cornrows (tight braids along the head) before school, badly.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Baltimore	Baltimore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Tremaine	Tremaine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cornrows	cornrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	braids	braid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **do** | present | Tremaine's dad | dad's cornrows |  | Baltimore | before school | badly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornrow=Eventuality |

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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:7`.

**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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