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title: She cries, and Mum lets her; next time Dad promises something, Mum k… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: She cries, and Mum lets her; next time Dad promises something, Mum keeps a plan B ready, just in case. Who acts: Paige, Mum, Dad. 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 cla
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# The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 32

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She cries, and Mum lets her; next time Dad promises something, Mum keeps a plan B ready, just in case.

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**Who acts:** Paige, Mum, Dad · **What happens:** cry, let, promise, keep · **To what, where:** Paige, something, plan

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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 (Paige, Mum, Dad), 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:32
# text = She cries, and Mum lets her; next time Dad promises something, Mum keeps a plan B ready, just in case.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	B	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Paige |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | present | Mum | Paige |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | Dad | something |  |  | time |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | Mum | a plan |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |

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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:32`.

**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): 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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