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title: I got a scooter.» Afterwards Grandpa ruffles her hair: «Bummer of a… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: I got a scooter.» Afterwards Grandpa ruffles her hair: «Bummer of a call, kiddo? Who acts: I, Grandpa. 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 9

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I got a scooter.» Afterwards Grandpa ruffles her hair: «Bummer of a call, kiddo?

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**Who acts:** I, Grandpa · **What happens:** get, ruffle · **To what, where:** scooter, hair · **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 (I, Grandpa), 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:9
# text = I got a scooter.» Afterwards Grandpa ruffles her hair: «Bummer of a call, kiddo?
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scooter	scooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
7	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	ruffles	ruffle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Bummer	bummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	kiddo	kiddo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	?	?	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 | **get** | past | I | a scooter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ruffle** *in a quote* | present | Grandpa | Hallie's hair |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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, 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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