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title: At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics
description: At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans. Who acts: Uncle Mike, Bulls, family. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 0

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At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Mike, Bulls, family · **What happens:** say, hate, groan · **To what, where:** Christmas dinner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 (Uncle Mike, Bulls, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:0
# text = At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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 ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Uncle	uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Mike	Mike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	red	red	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
15	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Uncle Mike |  |  | Christmas dinner |  | for year running | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hate** *in a quote* | present | Bulls |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **groan** | present | half family |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×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.

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