--- title: The take-out trick: remove the other person and listen; "Mum gave sw… — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics description: The take-out trick: remove the other person and listen; "Mum gave sweets to I" sounds wrong and "to me" sounds right, so it is "to Ben and me". Who acts: Mum, person. 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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 (Mum, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:5 # text = The take-out trick: remove the other person and listen; "Mum gave sweets to I" sounds wrong and "to me" sounds right, so it is "to Ben and me". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 take take NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 remove remove VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 21 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 28 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 conj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | infinitive | | the other person | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Mum | sweets | I | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to i=Recipient | | 4 | **sound** | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **sound** | present | Mum *not said here* | | me | | | right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to i=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | person | | | | | to Ben | 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:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:5`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/5-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who/4/) - next →: [Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/5-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/5-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who/)