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title: His friend Niall asks Bríd, Shay's key worker, «Can Shay come to my… — Friends who get it · tree and pragmatics
description: His friend Niall asks Bríd, Shay's key worker, «Can Shay come to my party? Who acts: friend, Shay. 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 32

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His friend Niall asks Bríd, Shay's key worker, «Can Shay come to my party?

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**Who acts:** friend, Shay · **What happens:** ask, come · **To what, where:** Bríd, party · **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 (friend, Shay), 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:32
# text = His friend Niall asks Bríd, Shay's key worker, «Can Shay come to my party?
# 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): no change
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Niall	Niall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Bríd	Bríd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Shay	Shay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
13	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	Shay	Shay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Shay's friend |  | Bríd |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent bríd=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | can | Shay |  |  | my party |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location |

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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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**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): no change. **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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