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title: Mum's boyfriend Craig tells Zane, «My house, my rules, mate.» Zane s… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum's boyfriend Craig tells Zane, «My house, my rules, mate.» Zane snaps, «It's Mum's house.» He tells Mum, and Mum and Craig agree that Mum makes the big rules for now. Who acts: boyfriend, Zane, Mum, my. A sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» of the everyday course of Mo
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# The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 24

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Mum's boyfriend Craig tells Zane, «My house, my rules, mate.» Zane snaps, «It's Mum's house.» He tells Mum, and Mum and Craig agree that Mum makes the big rules for now.

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**Who acts:** boyfriend, Zane, Mum, my · **What happens:** tell, snap, be, agree, make, rule · **To what, where:** Zane, house, Mum, big rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boyfriend, Zane, Mum, my), 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:24
# text = Mum's boyfriend Craig tells Zane, «My house, my rules, mate.» Zane snaps, «It's Mum's house.» He tells Mum, and Mum and Craig agree that Mum makes the big rules for now.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Craig	Craig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Zane	Zane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Zane	Zane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
22	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
29	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Craig	Craig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
40	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Mum's boyfriend |  | Zane |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent zane=Recipient |
| 2 | **snap** | present | Zane |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | boyfriend | Mum's house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Zane |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Mum and Craig |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | present | Mum | the big rules |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent rule=Product for now=Asset |
| 7 | **rule** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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