--- title: Nikau's nan in Rotorua teaches him Māori songs, and when he gets a w… — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics description: Nikau's nan in Rotorua teaches him Māori songs, and when he gets a whole verse right she says, «Ka pai, moko!» («well done, grandchild!» in Māori). Who acts: nan, Nikau. 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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 (nan, Nikau), 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:34 # text = Nikau's nan in Rotorua teaches him Māori songs, and when he gets a whole verse right she says, «Ka pai, moko!» («well done, grandchild!» in Māori). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nikau Nikau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Rotorua Rotorua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 8 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 24 pai pai X FW Foreign=Yes 23 dep _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 moko moko NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 grandchild grandchild NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Nikau's nan in Rotorua | Māori songs | Rotorua | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient song=Topic | | 2 | **get** | present | nan | a whole verse | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nikau | | | | | right *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | | grandchild | | Māori | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:34`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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