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title: The party is over, there is cake on the ceiling, and Mum groans: "No… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics
description: The party is over, there is cake on the ceiling, and Mum groans: "No more sweets, they're bouncing off the walls on all that sugar!" Every grown-up in the room nods. Who acts: party, cake, Mum, sweets. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths course of Mova's primary scho
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# Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 0

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The party is over, there is cake on the ceiling, and Mum groans: "No more sweets, they're bouncing off the walls on all that sugar!" Every grown-up in the room nods.

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**Who acts:** party, cake, Mum, sweets, grown up · **What happens:** be, groan, bounce off, grow, nod · **To what, where:** walls, sugar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» 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 (party, cake, Mum, sweets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:0
# text = The party is over, there is cake on the ceiling, and Mum groans: "No more sweets, they're bouncing off the walls on all that sugar!" Every grown-up in the room nods.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	_	15	nsubj	_	_
15	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
20	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	bouncing	bounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
34	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
35	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
37	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	nods	nod	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the party |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | cake on the ceiling |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **groan** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bounce off** *in a quote* | present · progressive | sweets *= sweet* | the walls |  | all sugar |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wall=Theme on sugar=Trajectory |
| 5 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **nod** | present | every grown up in the room |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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**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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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