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title: On his tenth birthday Corey sits by the phone all afternoon, cake un… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: On his tenth birthday Corey sits by the phone all afternoon, cake untouched. Who acts: Corey. A sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 0

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On his tenth birthday Corey sits by the phone all afternoon, cake untouched.

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**Who acts:** Corey · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** tenth birthday

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 (Corey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:0
# text = On his tenth birthday Corey sits by the phone all afternoon, cake untouched.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Corey	Corey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **sit** | present | Corey |  |  | his tenth birthday | afternoon | by the phone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on birthday=Location |

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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:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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