--- title: Callum learns at nine, from his cousin at a party: «Ye're adopted, d… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics description: Callum learns at nine, from his cousin at a party: «Ye're adopted, did ye no' know?» («no'» is Scots for not). Who acts: Callum, ye, no. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Adoption](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/) / 15 # Adoption, sentence 15 Callum learns at nine, from his cousin at a party: «Ye're adopted, did ye no' know?» («no'» is Scots for not). **Who acts:** Callum, ye, no · **What happens:** learn, adopt, not know, be · **To what, where:** nine, Ye, Scots · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (Callum, ye, no), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:15 # text = Callum learns at nine, from his cousin at a party: «Ye're adopted, did ye no' know?» («no'» is Scots for not). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 522-adoption.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Callum Callum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 19 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 20 no not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 27 no no NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 ccomp _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 obl _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present | Callum | | | nine | | from Callum's cousin at a party | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cousin=Source | | 2 | **adopt** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Ye | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | ye | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | no | Scots | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:522-adoption.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Adoption, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/14/) - next →: [Adoption, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/)