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title: «I've been to Disneyland like fifty times» might mean twice, and tha… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics
description: «I've been to Disneyland like fifty times» might mean twice, and that he loved it; asking about his favourite ride is a friendly reply. Who acts: children, visit, asking. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 11

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«I've been to Disneyland like fifty times» might mean twice, and that he loved it; asking about his favourite ride is a friendly reply.

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**Who acts:** children, visit, asking · **What happens:** be, mean, love, ask, ride · **To what, where:** house, friendly reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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 (children, visit, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:11
# text = «I've been to Disneyland like fifty times» might mean twice, and that he loved it; asking about his favourite ride is a friendly reply.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Disneyland	Disneyland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:csubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	csubj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | children *= child* |  |  |  | time | to Disneyland | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | might |  |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **love** | past | visit | house |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about visit's favourite ride | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about ride=Topic |
| 5 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | asking | a friendly reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ride** |  | visit |  |  |  |  |  | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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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