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title: «Cheers, pal.» Liam-Jay doesn't need it that week, but he knows wher… — Friends who get it · tree and pragmatics
description: «Cheers, pal.» Liam-Jay doesn't need it that week, but he knows where to go. Who acts: Liam. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends who get it, sentence 25

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«Cheers, pal.» Liam-Jay doesn't need it that week, but he knows where to go.

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**Who acts:** Liam · **What happens:** not need, know, go · **To what, where:** pal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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 (Liam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:25
# text = «Cheers, pal.» Liam-Jay doesn't need it that week, but he knows where to go.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 525-friends-who-get-it.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Cheers	cheer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pal	pal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:vocative
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | Liam | pal |  |  | week |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | Liam |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:25`.

**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, 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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