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title: Sometimes she comes and they play Uno; sometimes she doesn't turn up… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she comes and they play Uno; sometimes she doesn't turn up, and Luca goes quiet for days. Who acts: mum, staff, Luca. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 23

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Sometimes she comes and they play Uno; sometimes she doesn't turn up, and Luca goes quiet for days.

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**Who acts:** mum, staff, Luca · **What happens:** come, play, not turn up, go · **To what, where:** Uno

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (mum, staff, Luca), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:23
# text = Sometimes she comes and they play Uno; sometimes she doesn't turn up, and Luca goes quiet for days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 520-living-in-a-childrens-home.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	Uno	Uno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Luca	Luca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present | mum |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | present | staff | Uno |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uno=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **turn up** | present · do-support | mum |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | Luca |  |  |  | day | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:23`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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