--- title: I'm tamping!» she wails, staring at the lumpy mess in the mirror («t… — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics description: I'm tamping!» she wails, staring at the lumpy mess in the mirror («tamping» is Welsh slang for furious). Who acts: I, Granny, tamping. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Granny, tamping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:31 # text = I'm tamping!» she wails, staring at the lumpy mess in the mirror («tamping» is Welsh slang for furious). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 tamping tamp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wails wail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 lumpy lumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tamp** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wail** *in a quote* | present | Granny | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stare** *in a quote* | gerund | Granny *not said here* | | | | | at the lumpy mess in the mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mess=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | tamping | Welsh slang | | | | for furious | 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:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:31`. **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 ×2, 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. 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