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title: «It's like prison, man,» Jordan-Lee moans at school. — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: «It's like prison, man,» Jordan-Lee moans at school. Who acts: home, Jordan. 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 6

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«It's like prison, man,» Jordan-Lee moans at school.

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**Who acts:** home, Jordan · **What happens:** be, moan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (home, Jordan), 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:6
# text = «It's like prison, man,» Jordan-Lee moans at school.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	moans	moan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | home |  |  |  |  | like prison; man *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **moan** | present | Jordan |  |  |  |  | at school | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at school=Stimulus |

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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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-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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